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I think {companies, people, organizations} should be way faster to reject. I think little is less comfortable or ideal than the waiting period, and it benefits almost nobody. Think about how much suffering would be eliminated by rejection happening significantly faster!
People at EA companies should push for instant rejection after a bad interview as a low-friction, trivial-to-implement, extremely effective intervention against suffering.