This whole process is now beyond ridiculous and nobody seems to know what to do about it. In 1998, I was hired after one interview where we talked for about 10

This whole process is now beyond ridiculous and nobody seems to know what to do about it. In 1998, I was hired after one interview where we talked for about 10 minutes, then I was asked to sit down at a computer and demonstrate that I could use vi and knew how to get a query string from environment variables in C. I stayed there for 24 years, hit major burnout when I was forced into more social roles, took some time off, and now I have no idea how to effectively navigate this Kafkaesque hiring process.