[j-scott]

Databricks, Snowflake and Stripe required NDAs for the onsite portion of the loop.

The NDAs covered anything internal discussed during the hiring loop.

[giantg2]

That's crazy. Unless they're hiring you to solve a novel problem there's really no reason. If you're not paying me for the interview, I'm not signing an NDA.

[igor47]

From the interviewing side -- if you're under NDA I feel more free to answer arbitrary questions about the business. But your opinion is not unique, so my current company stopped asking for NDAs. We sometimes still do it during the offer stage if a candidate has a lot of detailed business questions