[pdimitar]

Yeah, sure, because most of the world "emails the benefits package" to candidates.

Maybe HN should mandate comments in these threads to be prefixed with:

"[USA resident that never struggled to find a job]"

How do you think? I think it will help not skew the discussions so severely in the direction of privileged SV engineers.

Truth is, most of the programmers out there face terrible HRs and the deal is binary -- you either accept all of it (with very rare exceptions with super small wiggle rooms) or just go look for a job elsewhere.