The bar exam is a licensure process, not a hiring process. The hiring process at a large firm (analagous to a big software company) is a 20 minute screener where you chat about the weather, followed by a callback where they put you up in a nice hotel, and you have a series of 20 minute chats about the weather punctuated by a nice lunch at the local steakhouse. Gruelling it isn't...

Not that I would suggest replicating it mind you. The interviews are simple because they're literally just screening for people who can't have a converstaion about the weather. 95% of the substantive decision is just looking at the rank of your school and then your GPA. 90% of the candidate pool is excluded by arbitrary cutoffs from the get go. Which is an awful way to hire.