Interviewing has become a theater of the absurd. You get examined on things that won't be useful in 99% of your work. People put in hours to prepare and game

Interviewing has become a theater of the absurd. You get examined on things that won't be useful in 99% of your work. People put in hours to prepare and game it. Overall countless hours go to waste to just play the role. Most times it doesn't even show whether someone can think (what you might see as thinking might be well rehearsed "act as dumbfounded for a while").