I completely agree. We've had almost every candidate (even some we _didn't_ hire) thank us for the interview process and how we went out of our way to make it

I completely agree. We've had almost every candidate (even some we _didn't_ hire) thank us for the interview process and how we went out of our way to make it stress-free and representative of the job. I'm not interested in tricking people or trying to show off "look how smart we are and how hard our test was"... puke. I want to work with solid performers who don't play games, why would I start that relationship off by playing a bunch of stupid games (silly interview tests/process)? And here's the thing, even with our somewhat easier/less-stress testing process, we still got high quality hires and have had very few cases where we have later had to let someone go due to not being able to do the job. This isn't a "hire fast, fire fast" situation.