At my last job (Senior SWE at a startup that's been around for 10 years) the company had an interview step after the technical interviews where 1) you the appli

At my last job (Senior SWE at a startup that's been around for 10 years) the company had an interview step after the technical interviews where 1) you the applicant step through your résumé with the Head of Engineering and talk about what you did at each of the jobs on it and what each manager at each place would say about you and 2) afterwards that interviewer calls one manager from each of those jobs (including your current one, but that can be a coworker) and asks what you did there and how you were as an employee. So I found myself having to get contact info for people from 8 years back and then talking to them like I'm a lawyer prepping a witness. Kinda wild. At my current gig (SWE at a big corporate place) they outsourced all verification to another company who verified my employment and college enrollment was when I said it was.