@billclancy wrote:
I'm in the same boat. I tested on June 7, 2018, submitted the endorsement on June 12, and here we are on July 13. I understand that they give themselves six weeks to complete an endorsement, but as a longstanding current CISSP (Since 2005), I'd think it's pretty easy to do a quick verification and call it good.
My impression is that it is more like a grocery checkout queue. You get in line and wait for those before you. In other words, the 6 (or in your case 4.5) weeks represents the length of the queue, not the complexity of your case.
They don't appear to have a "10 items or less" register and I am not sure if it would be a good thing. Although you would be able to ditch the line and get out of the store much faster, it is more egalitarian to add another general-purpose register so everyone gets out a bit faster.
However, since the queue seems to run a consistent 4 weeks to 6 weeks, throughput does not seem like the underlying issue. More likely, they need temporary help to reduce the backlog to 1 to 3 weeks.
