In our line of work and in our economy, there is no low-risk, low-cost way to legitimately match people and jobs. The standard is just a brief all or nothing i

In our line of work and in our economy, there is no low-risk, low-cost way to legitimately match people and jobs. The standard is just a brief all or nothing interview process. You and the company are each taking a chance on immediately making a big commitment and marrying a stranger without ever dating or getting to know each other first. Ideally, as a candidate, you'd go and work at a company for a short period, and once you can evaluate what it's actually like there and they have a chance to evaluate your work, then you would have a followup interview to determine whether to go ahead (and if so negotiate terms) or call it off. But that doesn't work well in our economy or with the way our companies are structured. So we're stuck with speed-dating. Due to limited interview time, they throw puzzles at you and try to throw you off guard to see how you react to an unusual situation, and whether you can handle it. How you handle a crisis or bizarro unexpected situation is more important than knowing what you can do under normal circumstances or how you are normally. Not a pleasant answer, but one way of looking at the why.