Here's a better advice, if you allow me to quote the title of a book by Cal Newton: be so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.

Don't play little games like that. You end up wasting everybody's time. Maybe you don't care about their time, but you should care about yours. The interview process is taxing, you can't focus properly at your current job, the uncertainty eats at you, you can't treat it as a zero cost to you.