i've experienced a lot of shitty jank in hiring whilst looking for jobs but tbqh the one i have now required basically nothing in the way of "humiliation rituals" and, unsurprisingly, the office culture is quite good and my team is responsive and polite to my dumbass questions now that I'm in. the only bad part of the hiring process is it took a really long time but even then when i told them "yeah this took forever and I'm doubtful I'll get it; i'm not burning bridges for you" they outright said "okay. we'll rejigger the shifts a little if you truly insist on having two jobs"
and the hiring/interview processes that were nothing but a parade of humiliation rituals are the ones where, unsurprisingly, i didnt get the job and it's questionable that one even ever existed
