Even if you did have a chance, problem is it's still a numbers game. For every developer not willing to go through that process, odds are they will find 5 who

Even if you did have a chance, problem is it's still a numbers game. For every developer not willing to go through that process, odds are they will find 5 who will, while having their current employees accept doing more work than they realistically should to offset cases of 'nobody wants to be hired'. When the inevitable burnouts come in, managers seem to just ignore it and accept it for what it as 'that's just part of life' or something. For every company willing to disclose things upfront prior to the first interview, there will be a few dozen who'd rather do the whole song and dance trying to stick to their culture or worse, proactively use sunken cost fallacies to reel you in. Of course the more experience you have, the more you can fight against this. But I suspect even most seniors struggle with this. Many would rather jump ship to management / pseudo-management or accept things as is than talk and fight back together.