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Interviews are posturing, not work. The tweet explains all of the work that the candidate is proud to have done, and the disappointment at being judged in a posturing pageant instead.

If you're not already rich, my suggestion is to get used to the idea of passing purely formal tests. It's a really common part of life for everyone else. Sorry.

Coexisting with the system is not the same thing as never questioning the world around you.

Yes. You might think it's humiliating, but sometimes showing some humility (rather than tweeting something along the lines of "They want me to do the same type of interview like the peons? Pah, I'm too good for that!") might be in order...

When I went to interview for my first dev job (C++) all I had to say was; I know what a vtable is, I can use a profiler, debugger and I know assembly language. I was hired without having to write a single line of code.

Heh, that's how the interview at my first job went at a small Ruby on Rails company.

The lead developer asked me intermediate to advanced questions about Rails that you'd only know if you knew Rails. He asked me about impl details of a Rails projects on my Github. And I got the job.

I never had an interview as pleasant as that since.

They literally are above it.