> ...[companies and interviewers] that the goal of the hiring process is to find the very best possible candidate, whereas the goal in reality is to find somebody "good enough" as efficiently as possible.

I suppose that's why mathematicians came up with the idea of "optimal stopping." There are literally tons of scenarios out there where the goal isn't to get "the very best possible candidate," but to get someone "good enough," or maybe even the best person you can get after putting a reasonable amount of time and effort into searching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping