As a hiring manager for a remote team myself, whatever company scheduled your interviews that way was very unfair to you to make you take that risk 8 times. We

As a hiring manager for a remote team myself, whatever company scheduled your interviews that way was very unfair to you to make you take that risk 8 times. We do have a similar numbers of total conversations in our hiring process, but they're grouped into a smaller number of chunks/days; only some of those are an hour with 2-4 of them between 15 and 45 minutes; and we span many time zones and biorhythms on several continents so we can accommodate candidates who prefer to interview when they're at home. That said, over my pre-pandemic career I think I've undergone interviews from small conference rooms or "phone booths" at workplaces before, with any bookings labeled as something like "personal call", or at cafes or quiet outdoor spaces near workplaces; most of my office jobs have allowed a certain amount of WFH too even if not a majority of my time.