Comment by indymike

The most awkward part of the hiring process for management is when they have a good candidate, who makes it all the way to the offer stage and a better candidate emerges before the offer is accepted. Most managers will sneak the offer to the better candidate, and hope the good candidate stays on the hook while the better candidate hopefully makes it through onboarding.

Most corporate hiring processes are voodoo anyway. A consistent process based on trowing resumes down a staircase and hiring everyone on stair 4 probably will have about as much impact on workforce quality as the random, inconsistent process that is used in most companies, especially when you factor in interview content.