Like you know what a good company is 🙄
I'll give you an example. I lost my job about 4 months ago. It happens when work runs thin at an 8-person (now 7-person) company. Fortunately, people like me, so I had a great rec from my former company and a lot of people pushing my resume at a lot of companies. One of these companies was Edare, sister company of Creare, both arguably great companies. They have built hardware for the Hubble telescope and Mars rover(s), arresting cable terminations for aircraft carries, invented RBNB networking software, FLUENT CFD software, and so on. My screening interview was 6 hours long and included both verbal quizzes and a written test. That particular job didn't work out due to a mismatch of target start dates and salary.
The company where I wound up taking a job had a screening interview that wound up being 5.5 hours long including an oral quiz (giggity) and a CAD software proficiency exam. They skipped the second interview and sent me a job offer the next day. They are commonly regarded as one of the best employers in my area and are comfortably world leaders in their industry.
Two companies, considered the best at what they do, use very long interview processes including tests. It's very common with companies that consider employees investments. Going into these interviews I had the recommendations of multiple (usually senior) people at each company and I still was put through my paces.
Get your head screwed on right.
