Out-of-work employee gets rejected after 5 rounds of interviews through a phone call that lasted 12 minutes with the VP of operations, who was in his car: 'Why do companies make candidates jump through endless hoops?'

Why go through all that for nothing?What is it with companies and recruiters that love to do a hundred and one rounds of interviews, all to just hire a candidate internally? What is in it for them? They are losing a lot of time having to review resumes (if they even do that), then having to schedule interviews with each candidate, which can take a lot depending on how many rounds they do. All to just disreagard all that work they did at the last moment just to not hire anybody, or just fill the position initially as they were intending since the first moment. I'm not even going to start discussing the amount of time they are making candidates waste. But focusing just on the company. Why would they do that whole arduous process if they weren't going to hire any candidate? Or why would they take a candidate to 5 rounds of interviews before disregarding his application? Like, in this story, why didn't they just reject him in the first or second round? If everything was okay with him during the first four rounds, why do a fifth? What changed in that last round? Let me guess… absolutely nothing. My theory is that most companies want to make it look as if they were growing and hiring mo…

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