“This year, all 24 candidates will interview on the same day and the lunch and dinner will be buffet-style. Think Cici’s Pizza. After dinner we will announce the winners around a campfire by dismissing the losers one by one. May the odds be ever in your favor!”

for a second I thought you meant this about political candidates and I was all in

"Listen, we know this is a lot. But by making this 'Real Job Candidates of Oklahoma City' the university will be able to fund a seventh TT line!" "The alliance of Brittany, Ted, and Sam will share lab space, making them a cheaper set of hires. But will the theoreticians underbid them???""Listen, we know this is a lot. But by making this 'Real Job Candidates of Oklahoma City' the university will be able to fund a seventh TT line!" "The alliance of Brittany, Ted, and Sam will share lab space, making them a cheaper set of hires. But will the theoreticians underbid them???"

My undergrad institution did a "all 16 candidates for all the 5-6 faculty lines on campus at once" thing one year and wrote an article in an ed magazine about how well it worked, but they have uhh not done it again.