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The problem with your friend's situation is not a bad interview process, it's that they're being taken advantage of, and for some reason not improving their own situation, in a market where a good candidate is calling the shots on the terms of their employment.

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99.9% of candidates are not calling any shots in this employer’s market. Unless you are a celebrity, widely known as a top candidate, the employer is pretty much going to be dictating the interview process, the job description, the compensation, and the terms of employment.

If this were an actual employee‘s market, the friend might not be so underemployed.

Software is 100% an employees market. Everyone wants coders, and can be hard to pin down good ones. I think software engineers either don't know what they are worth, or are uncomfortable negotiating comp.

"Software is 100% an employees market"

Not if you're geographically stuck and your skills are not in demand locally.

And looking for remote jobs that are not US only is fun too. 'We are totally a global company that only works remote. such awesomeness, but yeah, you have to be based in this very specific time zone though' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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