When you have made a few bad hires (unskilled, poor performance, dishonest, etc.), you put up some walls to help protect you from more bad hires. There are a lot of assessments to determine if someone can do certain tasks that are required for the job so the burned employers will assign those to make sure the applicant knows how to do the tasks that will be assigned.

When you are a gullible executive or HR person, a good salesperson will con you into purchasing a subscription to a platform that promises you will only hire awesome people. The more tests you pay for, the better the candidates will be! Of course, the reality is that you need to determine whether the candidate will be a rock star based on the actual job and work - not just a set of tests that are neither valid or reliable (statistically).

As other have pointed out, the lazy recruiters will simply put a pile of assessments together to weed out as many candidates as possible so that they only have to interview 2-3 people. Very few will complete all of the assessments, which narrows the amount of work the recruiter has to do.

All three of these situations (except maybe the first company) are problematic. If they treat you like this at a time when they should be selling you on the awesome company, job, and boss, how will they treat you once you get hired? So painful...

Would you be so lazy if you thought very highly of this company? You would probably do it because you heard they are awesome to work for or you love their products/services. It sounds like you are not lazy, just that they did not motivate you to jump through so many hoops.

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