This actually does work. If you do a little homework, there are employers who eschew the googly-algo-cs-wanna-job bullshit, they talk to you as a person, want to know about your experience, drives, values, and they are usually great places to work.

The last two jobs I took were with companies that treat people with respect, and I would now never go back to a big American megacorps HR drone hiring tech test filter rubbish again.