Comment by codingdave

The process is aimed at fulfilling a business need that they are experiencing. Unless you know everything going on internally, it is difficult to judge whether the hiring process is bad, or simply not matched to your expectations. As to why it seems fearful, there is a huge price to pay if you make a bad hire in any company, but it is exaggerated when you make a bad remote hire, even more so if they have never worked remote before, and you need to bring them up to speed on how it works. There may be fear, but again, it is business-driven.