That's great, Gud. And you can totally just ask for time to respond to an offer.

On the subject of interviews:

My expectation is that for any job, my interview will be at least one full day, possibly more.

My husband has never had an interview go longer than an hour.

There are four places I'm really hoping to get. I've had a phone interview and a technical test for one of them and they both went well, so hopefully they'll bring me in for a face to face. With another, I've had a phone interview and they are bringing me in to talk with people from 9:00am to 2:00pm Thursday. I had a phone interview with a third that went well, but the skill set isn't a great match (which they knew from the recruiter beforehand) so that's a bit iffy. I had an in-person interview with the fourth that I thought went well, but that was two weeks ago so I'm starting to think that might be toast. I was the first person they interviewed though, so it might just be they are going slow in the first round.

Then there are a couple of places I've interviewed with in person that would be... okay, and I have a phone interview with another place that I suspect won't be real exciting coming up.

A full day, wow. I can't imagine one going that long. Most of mine are in the hour to hour and a half range. The one Thursday is that long because I'm interviewing for multiple jobs.

My expectation is that for any job, my interview will be at least one full day, possibly more.

My husband has never had an interview go longer than an hour.

I've had project interviews (where you're bidding on a project) last longer than most of my job interviews. Depends on the industry, I guess.

I spent longer applying for the job I have now than I did in the interview.

And good luck, Gud! I'm glad to hear you have options.

Here's a little Google autocomplete trick that might help. Open a google search page and enter, say, "Darcy DeWinter". Then put the cursor just after the 'y' and start deleting the characteres in "Darcy" until there's just the "D" left. Google will then autocomplete various first names starting with "D" with the last name "DeWinter".

I don't think I've ever had an interview go longer than an hour. I've had multiple interviews, but even everything added all up, we're talking maybe a half-day tops.

ION, if I blow my nose any more my head is going to TURN INSIDE OUT. Stupid plague.

Once I met everyone in one meeting and there was no second round, and even that was just an afternoon, or less. Maybe three hours to meet 4 people.

Yeah, never a day. The most I've had to meet was two people, about an hour each. Unfortunately I got most of the way home after the first interview, but you can be damned sure I hightailed it back for the followup. And voila! I have this job.

Still feeling the sinus pressure, and the jeans I put on today have a big schmutz of ... something on them. Not my slickest day.

Why is it that the interview scheduling for the places I'd really like to work is so slow, while at the same time the less exciting, but okay places, are so efficient?

Clearly in your industry, firms work out their stats via the point buy method.