Off hours interviews are not uncommon in other industries. In fact, when it comes to headhunters, the better ones I worked with when job hunting generally scheduled all their contact outside of office hours and initial interviews with their clients with the fact that I had a job in mind.

The full team followup on Fridays seems to also be a technique that's available. It lets candidates travel out on Saturday or Saturday afternoon if the window for meeting staff needs to be larger.

Scheduling interviews during normal work hours as policy suggests that there's a either just a need for a warm body and not careful selection driving the process or there's a not much respect for the idea that people have lives outside of working for them. Seriously, what kind of person thinks getting interviewed is how people want to use their vacation time? The clueless and the callous - of course.