Unfortunately, it’s also like that working at some places—not just in the interview process. The day-to-day can be excruciating involving each of your bullet points inside of 8-10 hours, on repeat.

There’s a lot more humourless bureaucracy than there is else it seems. It just gets packaged up in the popular mode.

It’s kind of like the Vogon with slightly savvier marketing teams and a Patagonia jacket.