Imagine doing this for 5 people, all the time wasted by the team necessary to spend this much effort on each person. Eventually I would think employees would get tired of this.
If you've ever been in a position to hire/fire employees and deal with managing a non trivial number of people then you'll appreciate taking the time to vet them (as best you can) before you hire them. Five hours interviewing someone is nothing compared to the days/weeks/months they'll be working with you. Even at 5 minutes of "savings" a day for a good vs poor choice you'd recoup the value of the interview in 60 working days (e.g. 3 months) and that's assuming it's just a single person's time your saving. In reality a worker's abilities and performance impacts more than just one person and the difference between a good and poor choice of employee is significantly more than 5 minutes a day.
I'm not saying you need to spend more than five hours with a candidate though it's not an obscene amount of time to vet out a person.
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Imagine doing this for 5 people, all the time wasted by the team necessary to spend this much effort on each person. Eventually I would think employees would get tired of this.
If you've ever been in a position to hire/fire employees and deal with managing a non trivial number of people then you'll appreciate taking the time to vet them (as best you can) before you hire them. Five hours interviewing someone is nothing compared to the days/weeks/months they'll be working with you. Even at 5 minutes of "savings" a day for a good vs poor choice you'd recoup the value of the interview in 60 working days (e.g. 3 months) and that's assuming it's just a single person's time your saving. In reality a worker's abilities and performance impacts more than just one person and the difference between a good and poor choice of employee is significantly more than 5 minutes a day.
I'm not saying you need to spend more than five hours with a candidate though it's not an obscene amount of time to vet out a person.
Much more time may be wasted if you end up hiring someone that doesn't fit the job description.
A 5 hour interview process, is "a lot of effort"?