[shantly]

There are so many mid-tier companies in my mediocre city paying (for the area) absolutely stupid money and so desperate for developers that they wouldn't dare ask that much time of a promising candidate for fear of losing them to somewhere else. It is, to an incredible degree, a seller's market for software development. There are two whole different worlds of software interviewing, as far as I can tell, and outside of FAANG and friends the pay difference is just about non-existent so it's not worth putting up with humiliating or time-wasting games.

[Zimahl]

Yup. If a developer wants to have a FAANG company on their resume they're obviously going to have to jump through some hoops and do what's necessary. Non-FAANG companies are going to have to take what they can get and hope it works out because they aren't worth a long drawn-out hiring process.

[shantly]

Yeah, I can get a bunch of phone screens for opportunities with nearly no effort. If comp's high across the board and I have, say, three or four promising calls within 36hrs of flying my "I'm looking" flag, and one says "we'd like you to come in for a whole day for a half-dozen one-hour interviews" or "we'll give you a 4-hour coding challenge" and the others don't, guess which one's not getting a second conversation? And they know that, so most places aren't pulling that crap. Economy turns around, who knows, probably swing back the other way, but right now? No.

[nickpsecurity]

There might be people here interested in what area that is to scoop up some of that stupid money or get contracts. ;)

[thfuran]

I certainly wouldn't say no to stupid money