[ChuckNorris89]

>Yeah no. Plenty of companies do this in the EU as well

True, but it really depends on the region and local market. If you go to an over-hyped place like Berlin for example, where there's tons of low quality start-ups claiming they're the next Google, and tons of both ambitious and low-quality candidates pouring in from abroad with inflated resumes trying to break into the market, then yeah, the hiring process will be broken from all the effort needed to filter out the posers and chancers from the candidates who can actually deliver results, especially if you don't have a strong network of contacts you can leverage.

But in my small city that nobody from abroad has heard of, hiring is much more sane, since there's much less noise you need to filter out. Granted, the number of opportunities and the pay is also much lower than in places like Berlin so that's the trade-off for sane interviews since the small market attracts less posers and chancers.