# Five Rounds for a Job You'd Learn in Two Weeks

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Candidate · via X

Five rounds of interviews for a mid-level job is unpaid consulting with extra anxiety, one post observed - a line liked more than a thousand times. The argument underneath it is arithmetic: if the work can be learned in two weeks, a five-stage process is not diligence. It is indecision with a calendar.

*Source: [@iam_biglad1 · X · 1,136 likes, 107 reposts, 14 replies · 16d old](https://x.com/iam_biglad1/status/2092133237141250311)*
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