What do think the optimal length of an interview day should be and or number of rounds?

I did back to back 4 interviews for four hours a few weeks ago and it was absurd. Did another interview day with 3 back to back 30 mins interviews and I thought it was perfect.

I have a hard time seeing the value in a 60 minute behavioral

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Rounds can and should vary to dial into the candidate. 4 is good. I like 45 min interviews. 30 for behavioral and mini case. 15 for q&a.

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Depend on level and type of roles

At 30 minutes, I can barely gauge anything for a 10 yoe tech implementer. 5 mins intro, and 5 mins qna means I have 20 mins left to talk about a system design.

When I was interviewing, 30 mins can get to anything except surface level screening.

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