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Four months for an offer sounds a lot more like a terrible salary negotiation tactic. The longer a candidate will wait for an offer, the less money they might be willing to accept.

It's definitely not going to get you the best candidate, but it might get you the cheapest one.

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In four months you’d owe me another 1% just for inflation. But the last time I interviewed I got a callback after less than two months and they found I’d already had a new job for a week and a half.

(In retrospect I should have followed up with them, as the new place was throwing red flags).

that's a whole quarter + a month where you didn't have a body and stuff didn't get done. maybe they'd be slow at first and a burden until they're up to speed, but that means you start that process sooner.

they either needed the exact, perfect candidate, or else they wasted a lot of time

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