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Again, you say that you want to weed out prima donnas. Yet, you act like a prima donna yourself with "we're not equal". Do everyone a favor - don't even invite people to the interviews when you don't think they are your equals - you are wasting their time.

You whole argument tells me you never actually hired people to work for you. Sitting on interviews and writing feedbacks is very different from hiring people to implement your ideas i.e. when your job depends on the work people you hired produce. Making talented people work for you when they don't have to is not an easy thing. Sitting on a high horse, like you are, it is pretty impossible.

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The relationship between a candidate and an employer is seldom an equal one, and it's ridiculous to claim otherwise -- we already made the case why candidates should want to work for us, and now it's up to them to prove that we want to work with them.

There are exceptional employees who we'll tolerate the bullshit for, but they are the exception.

Making talented people work for you when they don't have to is not an easy thing. Sitting on a high horse, like you are, it is pretty impossible.

If this helps you sleep better at night, you go nuts.

Whenever discussions about interviews or interviewers come up, the vast majority of comments are naturally going to come from people with a chip on their shoulder about the process -- the bottom dregs who churn from interview to interview. If you think the sorts of comments that discussions like this yield represents the actual talent that employers are seeking, you are sadly misinformed in the internet echo chamber.