For one, the proposed alternative seems to boil down to "give me special treatment" which is not a great look. For another, there is no perfect screening proces

For one, the proposed alternative seems to boil down to "give me special treatment" which is not a great look. For another, there is no perfect screening process, only tradeoffs between throughput, accuracy, and cost. Finally, if you think this very common interviewing process is "humiliating" then you're going to absolutely hate the hour to hour of most jobs...