"Round" can mean different things. A phone screen can be a round but if during an on-site you speak to 4 people for 20 minutes each that counts as 4 rounds. If

"Round" can mean different things. A phone screen can be a round but if during an on-site you speak to 4 people for 20 minutes each that counts as 4 rounds. If we say half an hour for screening and 2h for onsite, that's 2.5h total for interviewing - seems very reasonable to me (still 5 rounds but it doesn't sound as scary). Of course, I'm coming up with a generous interpretation of things. Some companies do take multiple cycles of interviewing and waiting for feedback after each one which is very tedious. My point is that you need to look a bit deeper than the number of rounds to get an idea of how smooth the interview process is.