Our company had this 15 years. Even sending a questionnaire would get less than 50% replies, tech questions or small asks "write a script which ..." much less r

Our company had this 15 years. Even sending a questionnaire would get less than 50% replies, tech questions or small asks "write a script which ..." much less replied. It's a filter. Goal was to filter out those candidates who apply to 100 companies per week, sometimes automated. See it as second or third step in a process. It's not against you personally, you're competing with dozens, with AI tools these days might be 100s, of low quality applications hitting the same email inbox.