Love it. It gets me clients that others miss out on. I'd rather do a technical test for a couple hours and not get it than do weeks of fruitless job hunting.

Love it. It gets me clients that others miss out on. I'd rather do a technical test for a couple hours and not get it than do weeks of fruitless job hunting. If you're doing 3 or 4 technical tests and still not getting it, then that's another matter. You need to pick your prospects better and talk to them well enough to understand whether they're actually going to hire you if you pass. Or perhaps they're just messing around with applicants for whatever reason (going through the motions to keep their boss happy, trying to look good to their investors/board, trying to fill an interview quota, trying to get free work out of applicants, etc). Capitalism baby!