They are paying their engineers to conduct interviews, write feedback, and sit on hiring committees. The hiring process is hardly free for them either.
> $2,000: the engineering team interviewed three candidates in-house before deciding to hire Jeanne. Each interview took about 7 hours (phone screens, in-house, debrief) for about 20 hours total.
This is a rough estimate for the startup provided in this blog post, you can do this by taking the salaries, getting their assumed hourly rate, and then applying it to the amount spent interviewing.
