# Ten Hours. Seven Stages. One Company That Cannot Decide.

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A Reddit user shared a hiring process that stretched across seven stages and ten hours and forty-five minutes: a recruiter screen, a Ruby coding assessment, a hiring manager interview, then a "final loop" of four separate hour-long interviews \u2014 system design, coding, interaction and impact, and product and delivery. Redditors called it a "job interview marathon." One commenter asked: "If you need this many interviews to decide on an applicant, you\u2019re a f---ing dumbass."

*Source: [r/recruitinghell \u00b7 viral \u00b7 via Livemint](https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/job-interview-marathon-10-hour-7-stage-process-triggers-debate-online-11743756373523.html)*
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