Be suspicious when anyone says something is normal in tech that tries to speak about the operations and culture of a vast array of companies, especially recruiters and very especially recruiters who work for recruiting companies.
Tech is a massive industry, and there's enough companies that don't do the normal thing that you can spend only a year at those companies and still have enough companies to remain employed for a lifetime. That's only 45 companies from age 20 to 65 if you only ever work a year at a single company.
That said, 5-7 seems exceptionally high. I've only ever done a max of 4, personally.
What I'm wondering is whether people are including phone screens and introductions as interview rounds. I'm going through the process now and with those I'll probably have 7 if I get an offer, but without it's more like 4 (online assessment, in person whiteboard, system design, behavioral). I haven't interviewed in 7 years prior to this, so I'm out of the loop with what's standard.
I do count the initial call if its screening in nature (usually is, its just automatic if you are an experienced dev). But compared to what you listed, I see 3 coding (including "tech screen"), 1 behavioral, and 1 architectural. Based on about 10 companies I interviewed with last month.
Be suspicious when anyone says something is normal in tech that tries to speak about the operations and culture of a vast array of companies, especially recruiters and very especially recruiters who work for recruiting companies.
Tech is a massive industry, and there's enough companies that don't do the normal thing that you can spend only a year at those companies and still have enough companies to remain employed for a lifetime. That's only 45 companies from age 20 to 65 if you only ever work a year at a single company.
That said, 5-7 seems exceptionally high. I've only ever done a max of 4, personally.