For candidates not living in the Bay Area, this is a welcome arrangement, especially to independent contractors like myself who can work remotely anyway. Based

For candidates not living in the Bay Area, this is a welcome arrangement, especially to independent contractors like myself who can work remotely anyway. Based on very limited experience, travelling to job interviews creates the kind of disorientation where you can't believe what you're looking at is real at a time when people are trying to get to know you. These forces are countervailing. Even while getting on the elevator, I was about 10% sure of where I was at in the city and just living on instinct. This makes travel exhilarating, but for an interview, it makes you want to try to cram in a month's worth of the necessary relationship building in one day while half-disbelieving what you are doing. Still fun, but it also seems that 95% of worthwhile mental activity happens in the combination of sleep and then re-approaching things the next day from new angles. I had already decided to always plan for extra time. Unconventional interviews are cool, and definitely necessary for the added responsibility and chemistry requirements, but don't let the travel make unconventional into just plain weird. I recommend anyone going to the Bay Area spend some extra time.