The bulls**t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
I noticed this last year when I applied for a software engineering job. For that position, the process is:<p><pre><code>    - Initial screening (done)
    - Personal essay (this stage)
    - Standardized aptitude and personality tests
    - Meet and greet with an engineer
    - General interview(s)
    - Recruitment screen
    - Technical assessment
    - Role-specific interview(s)
    - Hiring manager interview
    - Senior leadership interview
</code></pre>
I highly doubt the initial screening is done by a human. So they want the essays and personality tests done before you speak to a human at the company, and they are probably not even on the team you&#x27;re applying for. If you&#x27;re unlucky, every human involved in the process will be on a different team until you get to the hiring manager interview, which is at the very end.<p>Not only this but on Glassdoor I found dozens of people saying that they ghost you before the hiring manager interview so you could spend tens of hours interviewing and never speak to anyone on the team.