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6+ hour interviews are common for senior-level+ engineering roles at big orgs. They fly you in for a day of interviewing. Some orgs will even break this up to a 2-3 day thing to even it out.

If you're a bay company that's taking a $250k+/yr risk on someone you typically rake them over the coals (for better or worse).

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Sure, I'm aware of this and have been flown in to various locales to be grilled in interviews that started before it was really light out and finished after dusk (late in the year to be fair). My point isn't that companies do this, it's that the giveaway was that interviews must be like this that gave it away.

On a personal note I'll add it's even more exhausting when you schedule these types of interviews at different companies back to back on consecutive days so you don't have to keep flying in for each company.

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