I wouldn't necessarily say that employers don't want to put in the effort. They put in a lot of effort, but employers direct the effort towards the process rat

I wouldn't necessarily say that employers don't want to put in the effort. They put in a lot of effort, but employers direct the effort towards the process rather than the results. I've been through multiple rounds of interviews with some companies with no end in sight, as many people have. I refer to the endless number of interview rounds as an obsession with process because employers tend to think that the more they evaluate people, the better result they get, regardless of how useful the processes they subject applicants to are. I've generally found people to be going through motions more than anything else, and the additional process is just more work that is not particularly useful to evaluate the candidates. It's still a lot of effort for both the employer and applicants. That said, I do agree wholeheartedly that they should direct their efforts more towards the result of hiring a good candidate rather than just falling back to blind devotion to some series of processes to weed people out. They should focus on getting the most meaningful bit of information at each round to eliminate the most candidates possible, kinda like a form of optimal experimental design [1] if you are familiar with that term. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_experimental_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_experimental_design