If you can, always choose the company with the shortest interview time. It not only demonstrates that the company trusts its employees' gut feeling more (which is better for you) but it also proves their HR is not trying to quantify unquantifiables. Senior personnel don't need more than 5 minutes to decide if they want to work with you or not. The rest is wasted time.

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Interviews usually come after someone has already vetted you first. So yeah … shorter the better. If they are taking a long time that means there are many candidates and you’re still fighting for an odd chance of an offer.

Make this kind of stuff top trending on Primal. I'm looking at you, user base.

then why do Google and Amazon spend so much time?

because they are corporate shitholes

this is true for the countries where work is unregulated and free market can work like this, in the most efficient way

The best interview is the work proven over the last 5 years.

We don't need to talk, just show me what you built.

completely agree

I've done a coulpe of dozen interviews and this is false.

I'd guess that this is a noisy signal. Short interviews might just mean that it's a cattle call, and longer times might mean that they've already taken the time to narrow the list of candidates.