[RogerL]

Yes, this is the new (ab)normal, unfortunately. No one has any evidence whatsoever that all these hoops have any relevance to on the job performance. All we can do is push back. Be clear with HR on what you expect from the interview (I need to interview the company just as much as the company needs to interview me - if you give me 5 minutes to ask questions "at the end" I will not accept your offer). Even then you will walk into ambushes.

I can tell you that being honest about your treatment after the interview will win you no friends - more likely attacks on your character. So pleasant.

Anyway, if you need a job you just have to suck it up. If you have a job, I recommend pointing this out repeatedly - that you are not a supplicant, that your own, tiny measure of them is this interview process, and that if it goes poorly you will not be accepting a job offer even if offered one.

Never saw anything like this on the East coast or in flyover country (1988-2012), yet somehow, just somehow, these companies manage to hire and retain talent just as well as the west coast companies. Everyone ignores that data point, but it is the elephant in the room.