Our company does 5 interviews for a developer position: pre-screen with recruiter, hiring manager, pair programming, tech deep dive and one with one of the foun

Our company does 5 interviews for a developer position: pre-screen with recruiter, hiring manager, pair programming, tech deep dive and one with one of the founders. Having been through the process as a candidate and now involved in it as an interviewer, I can’t say that it doesn’t make sense. It is also quite expensive for us as there will be 7 different people involved but that is 7 people who have a say in assessing the candidate. This allows for a good assessment of the candidate from different perspectives and also to reduce bias from any individual interviewer (conscious our otherwise). Hiring the wrong person is expensive, even with a probation period. You have to pay a lot of commission to agencies. We have small teams and onboarding someone ties up valuable resources. Hiring someone means other good candidates might have to be turned away after that.