Just how many companies are you putting that far down your funnel‽ I mean, that's a bunch of time, yes, but you should start filtering out companies at step 1.

Just how many companies are you putting that far down your funnel‽ I mean, that's a bunch of time, yes, but you should start filtering out companies at step 1. If you're trying to collect a dozen offers before jumping ship then yeah, sure, but that's quite a lot of offers! The other question is how many of those result in an offer? Because I can see the frustration of there being no payoff at the end if you're not getting an offer most times after step 6. FWIW, last time I interviewed at Google, there was no take home test, so I don't know where people are copying that from but I don't think it's Google.