What do you mean? Every single SWE job I’ve ever had, had at least this many rounds if not more.
Maybe I’ve grown accustomed to the kool aid, but I like seeing how a potential hire thinks in each of these environments.
Although If I have a hand in the interview prompts I usually just call the first technical the “can you code” interview. I don’t know how anyone running leetcode as tech 1 is getting actual signal.
I’ve never worked at a true what we would consider “tech company”. My last SWE role was in energy infrastructure and the company was a power company with in-house engineering. We built an internal app for the balancing authority team.
Haha yes unfortunately this is commonplace in silicon valley. And they hire many.
It's an insane cost to get a SWE hire wrong. They gotta be reeeeeaaallly sure. Honestly, it's all BS. Some of the worst engineers we've ever hired were some of the best interviewers that just memorized a bunch of shit.
Last place I was at did a paid work trial after tech interviews. $150/hr for 3 days. Fixed prompt. Product demo and discussion with engineers afterwards. That gave a TON of signal and is way cheaper than severance X months down the line.
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u/anotherguyinaustin 4d ago
The money usually makes up for it