There is an amount of Social Engineering here embedded in the process. You have to be cool to be part of our club (Amazon|Google|<your startup>....). It's not t

There is an amount of Social Engineering here embedded in the process. You have to be cool to be part of our club (Amazon|Google|<your startup>....). It's not the pay, its some other form of darwinian merit system. If you want to be that fit person branded by us for life, jump these hoops. Take a month and deal with it. It's a lifelong gold star in your resume. These hoops are designed to select people who can do these tasks without asking too many questions or claiming ownership of your inventions if any. Like Army expects soldiers to just do it and be loyal. Just build this spec using the hammer we chose for you. It's a system of hiring and retaining that works and scales very well. The computer science algorithms and data structures are a fit function and this method is widely deployed and tested and its almost an Industry standard. It may be too late to find an alternative. Startups and incubators like YC are also competing for the same talent. They are defining a new fit function to identify people who can find problems in their surroundings and want to solve them with the tools available to them. The startup founders are also writing blogs about how they got funded, my series A looks better than your series B etc. They are unable to leverage social engineering as much as these enterprise crowd. Many of the graduates still come out of universities and aim to get a job in a respectable company than I will do a startup mostly because the startup based social engineering is weak. /end rant