Five Rounds Later, You Still Haven't Decided?
Five Rounds Later, You Still Haven't Decided? | APTI Careers A candidate makes it through a recruiter screen, then a hiring manager interview, then a technical assessment, then a panel round, then a final interview with a department head. Five rounds in, weeks have passed, and the hiring team is still debating internally whether this person is the right fit. Meanwhile, the candidate has likely accepted an offer somewhere else, because no strong candidate sits around indefinitely waiting for a company to make up its mind. At APTI Careers, we build AI-conducted interview tools that help hiring teams get clear signal earlier, so this exact pattern, drawn out interview loops that end in indecision, is something we see and hear about constantly from the recruiters we work with. Why interview loops keep growing Interview loops rarely start out long. They grow, one extra round at a time, usual...