yeah the name of the game now is just to avoid any company that has shitty recruitment. you can tell in an instant if they are worth your time or not, which I'd say in Canada is about 90% a waste of time.
someone who actually wants to hire will want you and wants to do whatever they can to get a good candidate.
Realistically its just the blind leading the blind. People have forgotten that a interview process was designed to avoid false positives, and that the companies who were most selective were providing top 1% comp and had brands that could carry that weight. If you are google and you were handing $500K in RSUs on top of $300K+ in salary, you better damn pick the right candidate...
For some random SMB in shipping or something to be bashing people over the head with 10 step-leetcode-full-panel-10-hour-systems-design interviews they just don't get it. For starters they probably don't even have the talent to properly evaluate the prospect. So who are they helping?
someone who actually wants to hire will want you and wants to do whatever they can to get a good candidate.