The problem with your response is just what the author is pointing out, that you only view life and hiring through the lens of “you”, and what you think you are entitled too.

As a manager and owner of my own company, I do not have 3 hours to dig into each of the 100 candidate applications, that reach my desk every day. When that is whittled down to the days applicants I have to interview, I still have to do the rest of my 10 hours of actual work over and above interviewing some self-entitled whiner who feels it is beneath them to answer the questions that I, as the hiring person, ask them.

I am the arbiter of what I look for in a candidate, not YOU.

Some of the things I look for is an employee that will do the work assigned, in the way assigned, in the time frame assigned, with a good attitude. That applies if you are a coder, a floor sweeper, an accountant, or any other position. You must have the skills for the job I am hiring for.

You are the one that must prove that you have those skills and abilities that I seek as the employer. that you and others do not like that and have so vocally and rudely expressed yourselves, just shows you will always have a hard time keeping gainful employment. Any company that you express that behavior and attitude at is unlikely to keep you for long.

One of the responses to Erick’s post demonstrated umbrage that he, Erick, acted as if it was a privilege to interview with him / google. That poster fails to realize that they have not entitlement to an interview, a job, or anything else in the world.

No company has any obligation to interview anyone. That makes the interview a privilege and one that the applicant needs to be appreciative of being allowed.