[WealthVsSurvive]

Found the person letting good candidates slip through the cracks. I literally just rescinded my application from a place when given a far too-open as far as choose-your-own-stack take-home assignment. I chose one very, very popular library that had unbeknownst to me, been slightly broken for some time. I fixed the library instead of doing the assignment and submitted an upstream pull. The recruiter's response was something along the lines of: "well, if you're having trouble completing the assignment, maybe you're not a right fit." I verbally handed the recruiter their ass, something more people need to start doing, and walked.

I've also been turned down for telling someone XML wasn't something people needed to really "know" to work with. The stack bias and navel-gazing of recruiters in their vainglorious attempts to prove that what they're doing is useful has reached peak.