I'm employed right now, for about 1 and half years, but there was a time that I tried to switch …

The hiring process has been like this for a long time. I had a hiatus from work in 2016 and when I tried to get back to the job market it was impossible to find anything, even when I was over qualified for many of the positions I applied to and was even willing to take a considerable pay cut just because I was switching business domains (although the stack and many of the required soft skills to do the job remain the same) The vast majority of the interviewers I faced had no idea what they were doing or trying to measure. Loop interviews were the worst because it generally takes just one guy out out five to dislike you even if you had a great time with the other four. I mean I bet most of these guys in loop interviews would not even hire themselves It became so dreadful and time consuming that I had to tell recruiters right away I would not be doing any whiteboarding or solving puzzles. …