Love how he’s critical of the 13-interview hiring process despite having done all 13 of those interviews.

“Nobody drives there anymore. There’s too much traffic.”

These companies can do 13 interviews because people will put up with them.

The little place I work does phone screen, work sample, final interview, reference check. We can be done in a week. Nobody wants to work with me bad enough to sit through 13 interviews.

You manage to live a life where if you don't like something, you can just avoid it?

13 interviews suggests he was interviewing for multiple roles within the same company; in which case it's not that shocking. In many places every team runs their own interviews.

Even more so for such a great engineer that in the words of his colleagues is "indispensable for the company".

If you're such a rockstar you can probably get shortened loops in good companies through referrals