Seems impossible at the moment. Most interviewers I had in the past year were hostile and seemed intimidated. I think people are afraid to hire.

There is also the indecisiveness, hiring managers that don't know what they want and of course the broken hiring process.

Does it make you feel smarter when you give people tests?

not really? The tests are fairly basic - there are just not very many tasks that are (1) can be done in <10 minutes (2) are not "aha!" questions and (3) interesting. If you can solve the programming task like this, it is basic proficiency, not something to be smart about.

An analogy: being able to do programming tests is like being able to calculate percentage ratios in the high school. Yes, there are plenty of students who cannot do that - but they are not interested in math. And for the students who are interested in math, the "percentage" problems are so simple it is not even worth mentioning.

Also, a bit of general advice: when you work in software, you don't usually want to be "the smartest person in the group" - this can easily lead to lack of professional development. You want to work with people who are smarter the you are, because you can learn from them.

Point 3: Developers are not professors and do not have a PhD in computer science. So any test they create is based on nothing.

Leave tests to academics.

I did this once and got ghosted after making it better. Not sure why they are doing it, but in my experience it never goes anywhere.