Hopefully, more suspicions will be confirmed with further episodes :)

Totally! Some decision-making forces in the market are 100% based on superficialities, ya know. The purpose of the show is to illustrate that. So engineers protect themselves from those shallow judgments. And learn how to get more offers because they understand the game better. Not like it, but learn it.

"Open to work is an anti-pattern" and "We only want candidates who have worked at Google" are equally shallow models some recruiters actually use. I wish it was all less biased.