You can convince a candidate to do a full day of interviews, but every individual interview would be at most 1 hour. Accounting for introductions, and giving T

You can convince a candidate to do a full day of interviews, but every individual interview would be at most 1 hour. Accounting for introductions, and giving THEM a chance to ask questions leaves you 45-50 minutes. Oh and you probably want to do a technical question to ensure the candidate is not a "talker" fraud, like a toy programming problem or a system design, so budget 25 minutes for that. You have 25 left, max. Just how many different stories of "a difficult challenge at work" can you get in 25 minutes? (With context, background, follow-ups, and clarifications?). My guess is 3-4 max. Which is still fairly good and maybe better than 1. But it's certainly nowhere close to 17.