If lose it, I will spend months for finding a new one.
I will send emails with no response.
I will be offered to spend enormous time for multilevel recruitment process, just to be rejected at the end.
I will spend hours making shitty take-home tasks, just to be rejected. Some companies even don't check them when I upload it on a server.
I will be asked terribly complicated white-board questions about forgotten algorithms used in no place. All that just to be offered a job about coding ETLs or adding some Javascript to a website.
All just to get a simple job. It doesn't look like companies are afraid. It rather looks like companies have endless stream of candidates and want to crawl them first, so they could not hire them later.
My last job hunt: 55 resumes sent (I was a perfect fit for 15 positions, not 100% for the rest). 10 companies responded. 5 were interested only about the salary, 4 of them didn't respond, 1 responded with "you wanted too much, we are not negotiating salaries". 2 terribly complicated take-home things (one company didn't event check it before rejecting me). Just 1 job offer, I took it, as I didn't get any other option after 3 months of searching.
It was 2 years ago. I'm looking for a job again... I've sent 20 resumes. Got no answer.
All 55 companies were posting the same job ads for the next months. About 5 of them are doing all the time, and the web is full of opinions how great the companies are.
So generally I feel like I'm rather useless than needed for the companies.
Writing anonymously here is cool :)