I have to head out for a bit, so can't write much, but I don't think we actually disagree. The point I was making is that in this organizing of the interview process we need to put figuring out whether there's a potential match before proceeding to the confrontational 'testing your skillz' phase. Otherwise we're just wasting time.

And, to be honest, as a well paid senior engineer my time is pretty valuable. Doing a skills test and then finding that the job is not of interest to me is pretty frustrating.