# Five Interviews for a $60k Desk Job; One Phone Call for a $60k Field Job

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via r/recruitinghell

The comparison, laid out plainly: for a basic corporate desk job paying around sixty thousand, the path runs through an ATS résumé shredder, personality tests, four to six rounds of panel interviews, and an unpaid take-home — and then often ends in silence. For a field tech, a trade, an operations role at the same money, it runs through a credentials check, a fifteen-minute sanity check, and a background check, and you are on site by Monday.

Same salary. Same outcome — the role filled. The only thing the extra rounds reliably produce is the ghosting at the end.

*Source: [r/recruitinghell · viral post](https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/1wicnfl/why_does_a_60k_desk_job_require_5_interview/)*
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