Tell me about it. I'm in the 9th circle of interview hell and if I wrote a blog post about my recent experiences it would die as a [flagged] post because it seems too made up.

I just today spoke with a recruiter for a position that is 3 steps back in my career, but asking for more skills than I have.

The compensation is also going back about 5-6 years in nominal payment, not even accounting for inflation. It’s titled and compensated like what looks to me a 3-6 year in their career senior engineer working at a successful but not mag7 level company like a DraftKings.

They won’t even move to the first stage of the interview process until their CTO has personally read and approved it.

At this point I’m more mystified as to why everyone’s wasting their time like this on filtering. I can’t see a rational situation where it’s worth executive time to bother filtering for a role that’s so minor to the organization, but that’s the circus we’re in now so I guess I’ll jump through the hoops