You missed one Jeff ... treat them with respect. I've interviewed at a lot of places, and some of the things these companies do is breathtaking ... that's when

You missed one Jeff ... treat them with respect. I've interviewed at a lot of places, and some of the things these companies do is breathtaking ... that's when they're interested in you. They try to schedule you into 3-4 hour interviews like you don't have a job to do that day. They send you coding assignments that take 4-8 hours to do. Interviewers get your resume 15 minutes before they walk into the room with you, then ask you to rehash your entire background (because ... you know ... that shit isn't in the resume in front of you already). Then there's the default position some of them take that 90% of the people they interview are idiots, so they're just going to treat you as such until you prove them wrong. I had one firm set me up for an interview, and then cancel it without actually telling me, until I emailed about 2 hours to the time of the interview wondering what was up etc etc But that's just the half of it, as soon as some of them decide you're that worthless programmer who didn't pass their pet brainteaser/trick question, they won't even do you the courtesy of telling you that you're out of the running. The recruiter who was all so chummy with you and positive about your prospects goes AWOL and you get that dreaded automatically generated rejection email. If you felt good enough about me to actually talk to me on the phone to get me to interview, why can't you even email me to cut me? Just man up and do it like the movie Moneyball. "Sorry x, you didn't make the cut. Good luck in your search". I'm a professional, I can take it. Its all rather exasperating, because we both want the same thing in the end.