&gt; I appreciate the effort put into wording that nicely, but really all you&#x27;re saying is, &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.<p>No it is not. I have a job. I&#x27;m too busy taking time out of my day to explain concepts that I barely use and not going to be using at employer who is asking them. That is the broken part. They are passing up on good hires with irrelevant crap because some them don&#x27;t have the time.<p>&gt;  Why bother with this kook when there&#x27;s a line of people outside eager to have a shot.<p>Because the kook that refuses to explain merge sort might be better at the job than the guy who desperatly jumps through hoops.