Yipes, I don't want to discourage anyone from applying. I think I was a special case of desperate/underqualified. That's why the process took me so long - I had to catch up big-time, and was extra paranoid about giving this my best shot (crossing my t's and dotting my i's). That meant spacing out my interviews so I had more time to prepare and improve between them.

Also, just wanted to note that the interview process has been greatly improved since we were able to allocate a person full-time to handling recruiting, scheduling interviews, etc. I don't know stats on our current turnaround time from application submission to offer, but I'm pretty sure it's much better (maybe a couple weeks to a month).