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If you can't find 2h for a Zoom call I start questioning your commitment to get the job, especially when there is no time limit on when you can have the meeting (within reason). When I had an important interview in a place where I really wanted to work I would usually take entire day off and make sure I am well rested, prepared and in right state of mind.

Yes, it is stressful. I try to make interviews less stressful but I also believe ability to perform under stress is a desirable trait. I have been presented with many stressful situations in my past where I had to deal with high stakes, difficult problems on a short notice, with important people watching my every move. Like dealing with an outage that incapacitated an entire national bank and was causing a loss of about 50M USD per day.

Now, I am mostly interviewing senior devs, team leads, tech leads, etc. I would be much more lenient with junior roles but I just don't have time to interview everybody and I also like to give the chance for other people to work on their interviewing skills.