Sure, I'll make sure you get your salary on time in case you get selected. You're worth getting selected, yes? Why don't you sit for the interview and we'll find out.

Or may be since your time is so precious, we can just skip this written-test-hogwash altogether. Let's just do the traditional telephonic round, shall we? Ohh and by the bye, so long as we are on this topic, you'd pay me for the time I had to waste on you in case you turn out to be a garbage of a candidate, fair?

Do you also demand payment when you have to stand in line at the grocery store?

Well, if they made me stand in line for 2-3 hours, then decided not to give me the food that I paid for because I'm not a culture fit for the grocery store, then yeah probably.

And do you ask payment for the comp-off against the time-off that you had to take to visit for the interview.

And do you ask payment for the gas spent while driving to come attend the interview.

And do you ask compensation for your intelligent views presented during the interview when they asked you a technical problem related to their real life scenario and your answer ended up solving that saving them millions.

Pre-pandemic, you could get flown out for onsites for the higher positions, so they sort of already were doing that.

And if I save them millions within the time box of an interview, they'll probably hire me anyway.

But I can invoice my time even though I'm not invoicing every detail of it.

Oh, you went way overboard just for the sake of your argument. Interviews at such positions have a different format. And different expectations. Heck, even the job contracts are customised at those levels. Nobody's gonna give those candidates a written technical round.

Not necessarily. If the HR is short-sighted, and that happens a lot for a lot of even famous companies, they'll say you have already saved the million and that your salary expectation is not worth it. Trust me, shit like this happens.

Theoretically yes (and they'll sure as hell contest that claim). But I've never seen anybody EVER do that except _very rarely_ for positions in Legal.