&gt; <i>&quot;Company, you need me more than I need you, and I expect YOU to jump through MY hoops.&quot; This is only true when you&#x27;re a one-in-a-million talent. It&#x27;s not going to work for the other 999,999 people.</i><p>(I assume &quot;on-in-a-million&quot; is an exaggeration to mean &quot;exceptional&quot;)<p>How skewed do you think the market is?  Many here talk about developer shortage, suggesting an <i>employee&#x27;s</i> market.  But let&#x27;s assume this is an employer&#x27;s market, and the employers can really chose: how exceptional exactly does one have to be to afford to be picky about the interviewing process? My guess would be between one-in-ten to one-in-a-hundred.  No more.<p>I think this is really about <i>status</i>.  Employees have lower status than their employer.  They owe them obedience and loyalty (by law in most countries).  Employers even expect a fair bit of deference most of the time.  They expect the prospective employee to &quot;know her place&quot;, and that includes putting up with dubious trivia questions.<p>Sure, if you <i>must</i> work at some top hot shot reputable company, you need to put up with their processes, however silly or gruelling.  Or you could decide they&#x27;re not so hot after all, and search elsewhere.<p>Even then, done right, refusing to jump through hoops <i>raises</i> your status.  By acting like you&#x27;re bargaining from a position of strength, your <i>strengthen your position</i>.  If on the other hand you let them taking you for granted, they&#x27;ll think less of you.<p>Now there are those who expect spineless sheep. They tend to reject me.  Fine with me, I would be unhappy with them anyway.