Obnoxious design aside, I do think this is mostly good advice and that fact is something everyone should find worrying. A lot of the qualities listed are nice

Obnoxious design aside, I do think this is mostly good advice and that fact is something everyone should find worrying. A lot of the qualities listed are nice to have, but are probably unrelated to what a candidate will actually be doing. Some of the things in this list might even prioritize bad candidates. "Convince me you've wanted to work here your whole life?" Unless you're Apple or Google, no one has wanted to work at your company for even a few months and most of them probably hadn't even heard of you until stumbling across your website or job board posting. What you are asking is for candidates to lie to you. Is that really what makes a good employee? I doubt it. I think practices like these are way so many companies are filled to the brim with incompetent designers and engineers. If, for example, you're looking to hire a software developer you should be way more concerned with the kind of code they write than with the quality of their handshake. Both are nice to have but only one is vital. As a semi-recent graduate who has slightly more recently become employed, my advice to new grads out there is to take the advice in this presentation, it's pretty accurate. My advice to the person who made this slideshow along with any other hiring managers who are currently nodding their heads in agreement: Unless you're hiring car salesmen you need to seriously re-evaluate your practices because you are terrible at your job.