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The top-end players operate way outside the norms for mid-market (as in, the "trimodal" software developer comp graph). Among the 8 or so software job offers I've accepted in my career, I don't think I've ever had one take more than 7 calendar days from initial contact to an offer.

I do see some paying mid-market rates and taking a month or more for their process. I bet they believe it's very hard to find software developers.

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I had a thought around those lines. I am sure Peter Norvig didn't have to go through 7 asinine whiteboard coding questions to get hired into Google.

Now, I am way way way far away from being Peter Norving, but in my 15 years career, I have found companies that value my experience enough so that they treat me well during the hiring process. In my last 3 jobs (10 years) I didn't even have to do "interviews" for the places I got into. I have been spoiled...

I won't really trash on google here, the recruiter gave me a _lot_ of useful tips/tricks that were generally helpful. But what made me sort of resentful was that the offer was (IMO) quite weak.

> Among the 8 or so software job offers I've accepted in my career, I don't think I've ever had one take more than 7 calendar days from initial contact to an offer.

same for me, it's usually <10 days from onsite->offer, then about 2months for h1 transfer and notice at current job.

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