[dimitri-gnidash]

It sucks the way you have been treated, and I am surprised that they did not cave in and offer you the position after you held your line on not coming in for the second day.

Having made hiring mistakes myself, I am afraid of the getting the wrong person on board and the only way to truly know is to test a relationship by working together. Contract-to-hire is a good way to go, but good developers have full-time jobs, and it is hard for them to jump ship without concrete promises from the employers.

I doubt they are thinking of these requirements as "we can ask for anything because we are awesome". They are adding more and more check and requirements after unsuccessful relationships trying to prevent another failed hire. "Last guy was a drug user, let's add a urine test to our offer process."

As far as consolation, I have seen DrChrono positions for months on HN so can't be easy to hire with all those requirements.