>I understand that getting rejected is frustrating. What I don't understand is the apparently pervasive attitude that asking candidates to put in some effort is unacceptable. It reeks of entitlement.

Most of us put effort into the skills on our resume. What's annoying is that no one on the other side apparently recognizes that and asks us to reprove our skills with things like this anyway.

>I also understand that any sane company is going to do its due diligence before making a bet on someone who just walked in off the street

And there's not a better way to assert my argument than when a company treats a PhD the same as someone who just walked in off the street.