I wanted to anonymously (for obvious reasons) share this article by Vox. "Job interviews are a nightmare - and only getting worse"
The strenuous, drawn out, and impersonal interview process described in this article is exactly what I have experience attempting to apply to EA jobs. Dozens of interviews and countless trials over weeks and weeks of not hearing back or knowing what is next. I am sharing this article today to draw the EA community to this issue in the hopes that more consideration can one day be given to applicants.
Thank you.
I wouldn't call it predatory - in fact, every significant work test / trial I've done has been paid, which is remarkably progressive!
However, I empathize with your pain - interviewing for EA jobs is a rigorous and rather impersonal gambit. As far as I know, this is a feature not a bug. It's frustrating but I try to cut them some slack. There are many applicants, EA orgs are almost always short-staffed and they're trying to avoid bias. Most EAs want an EA job but these hiring processes are optimized to test this desire.
Knowing this, I don't bother applying for an EA job unless I truly think that my application can be competitive and that I actually want the job (not a bad heuristic to follow in general).