It's a good indicator for someone will to jump through arbitrary hoops to get promoted at a big corp: write all the paper work as design docs, get all the promo

It's a good indicator for someone will to jump through arbitrary hoops to get promoted at a big corp: write all the paper work as design docs, get all the promos requirements and make sure all the weird business requirements of corpo customers are met. If you are not willing to "step down so low" you a perfect example of the someone who they want to filter out.