Others in this thread are asking why companies do this, and I can't help but wonder - perhaps they've mostly completed their software projects, so this is make-

Others in this thread are asking why companies do this, and I can't help but wonder - perhaps they've mostly completed their software projects, so this is make-work for them? Think about how many person hours go into interviewing one person if each interview is a several person panel. And then they'll have hours of internal feedback meetings to review the interviews.