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I found that the larger a company is (Megacorps like amazon and facebook), the worse the hiring process was. More drawn out, more stupid questions, less relevance to the job you're applying for, super duper slow and inefficient.

Smaller companies and startups tend to have much faster hiring processes

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As someone who works for a large company, 100%, and not just that, the restrictions on allowed interview questions can be so limiting that even if we could do better, we aren’t allowed to. It’s frustrating on the hiring side just as it is for candidates. I’m sure this isn’t true everywhere, but just my experience.

I (unfortunately) worked for a Big4 and the hiring process took 4 months, 7 interviews in total (3 with 3 different partners) and completing a case study.

And in the end all I did was make slide decks. And then I progressed onto how to tell people how to make slide decks. Not a thing mentioned in the interviews was necessary in my day to day work. It was one of the worst working experiences in my life.

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