Honestly I think there needs to be legislation introduced to make it mandatory for employers to provide feedback if the employee has invested hours into the int

Honestly I think there needs to be legislation introduced to make it mandatory for employers to provide feedback if the employee has invested hours into the interview process, while in exchange the employer gets legal immunity for their feedback. It's so demoralizing going through hours of take-home tests and coding challenges, passing all the questions, and still getting rejected with zero feedback. And yea these interviews are so ridiculous I really wonder what the hell these interviewers' actual goals are with these interviews. They all brag about only hiring the smartest people. A part of me feels like they're just fishing for ideas and stroking their own ego. These coding challenges I'm getting are often so stupid and almost insulting. Also these coding challenges in general are way overemphasized. You can either code or you can't, and it doesn't take much time to learn one's tech stack as long as one is familiar with something similar. What matters way more is one's knowledge of things like design patterns, architecture, and the non-technicals like how is it working with this person, what motivates them, are they a good person, etc. If I'm hiring someone for my startup and only have an hour of their time, no way I'm wasting that on some stupid coding challenge. The early seed stage companies and agencies tend to not waste time with that crap, it's the more established companies with bored engineering managers trying to justify their own existence and foster a culture of "rockstar" engineers that waste your time with these asinine take-home tests and robotic coding interviews only to reject you even after completing it and ghost you on any feedback. Prob the same engineering managers hiring scrum consultants. What's funny is I remember back when I worked in the corporate world we had some initial take-home test (not my decision, if it were up to me we'd only have that for juniors), but if the candidate was deemed too qualified (ie. the CTO knew them) they'd get to skip it. It's like - you've got 5-10 years of experience building complex stuff? Bend over and take our take-home coding test, code monkey. You're a top-tier "real" engineer? We won't insult you by making you do this low level plebian work, that's for the code monkeys (who will bring you your coffee in a sec)