The company I work for very much does that, as have others I have interviewed at and knew people working at. The company I currently work for is legally requir

The company I work for very much does that, as have others I have interviewed at and knew people working at. The company I currently work for is legally required to interview N (I don't know what N is) candidates for each position, hiring takes a long time due to clearances, and they have firm dates they need to have people started by so they can finish projects on time as they get projects. In the case they can not find enough qualified candidates where I work they relax the criteria and interview unqualified ones and hire the best they can find in that bunch, probably how I got hired with no experience. A candidate search usually starts 6 months prior to a project starting, with a decision made at least 2 months prior. While it is not the company I currently work for Salesforce.com is a company I have good reason to believe uses a system of choosing a single person out of a pool of interviewed people after a certain number have been interviewed. Since google has the multiple rounds of interviews and they very much had notes on my first time interviewing for my second time interviewing (neither of which did I make it to the second round of in person interviews). I suspect that googles last day of in person interviews, (2nd day? 3rd day? don't know how many days of in person interviews they have but I know it is more than one) is when they perform things in the manner you are describing. I have been told all the technical portions of the interview are over by the last day of in person interviews by some people who work there, although I am taking that information on faith based off the fact they are people I trust, and do not know first hand. Also from what I could tell Google does not use a short time window for their interview process either, as each time I entered the process it took over 3 weeks to go from recruiter to the first in person round.