I have commented in the past that the longest hiring cycle was almost 10 months at RedHat back in 2005, and I've had it be as short as a week in the early 2010'

I have commented in the past that the longest hiring cycle was almost 10 months at RedHat back in 2005, and I've had it be as short as a week in the early 2010's for a TechStars backed company. If a company doesn't have a hiring plan that doesn't end in 4-6 weeks, I'm not interested in even communicating with that company. I have no issues with trials or paid projects: I would actually prefer a trial or a paid project to starting somewhere only to find out that half the infrastructure including their MongoDB instances are running on Windows servers. (Ironically enough, in the Medical field, it takes 12-18 months to get hired because of the due diligence involved: my significant other was shocked when I was able to go from looking to hired in less than 28 days back in 2017!)