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I did five interviews and a project for the last job I didnt get. I'm scheduled for interview number four for a job I'm working now.
When I was hiring engineers I capped it at three interviews, maximum two hours of candidate time.
The reality is that if you know shit about your job, you will know if someone is a good fit in the first 10 minutes. If they suck, you will know it faster. It doesn't take hours and weeks to hire people, you just have to grow a set and be secure that you know your shit.
Google has done studies and experiments with their hiring process and determined that after three interviews you aren't getting any more signal about candidate quality. Their internal interview training talks about this, I've read their reports and the methodology seemed pretty sound. Yet for some reason they still usually do five interviews. Why? I never did get a good answer for that.
Those kind of experiments are done to blog about. I remember Atlassian did a 4 day work week experiment, wrote a blog singing it's praise, then deleted any internal employee messages that asked if we would implement it.