This is my personal pet peeve. I've often applied for jobs at well known tech companies who's technology is fairly simple (one company was a plain mid-sized CRU

This is my personal pet peeve. I've often applied for jobs at well known tech companies who's technology is fairly simple (one company was a plain mid-sized CRUD Rails app, another was three PhoneGap JS-frontend-heavy mobile apps + JSON API backend, fairly mundane things like that) And yet they still interview you like they're pretending to be SpaceX or NASA or something. 5+ hours of programming brainteasers (which they swear are just 'simple programming exercises' that 'are just to give insight into process' -- but are actually brainteasers, and you are actually expected to solve on site). Which makes the inevitable "we like you, but have to pass on you for technical merit" rejection sting pretty badly -- I have the technical capability to handle these jobs, because I already do this same work every day. But I get told my technical knowledge isn't strong enough to work on their apps, because of stumbling on some of the latest trick questions. And then, their managers write a blog post on Medium and complain about the lack of tech talent, or how they are inundated with fake applicants who "can't code FizzBuzz" sigh Technical hiring is just totally screwed up, and no one seems remotely interested in fixing it.