There is a salary requirement, as not to under cut local works. Of course if you working over 40 hours a week maybe the company gets it's pound of flesh!
Sorry to hear you had this experience, I would say its worth giving another go maybe you can check out the IRC first to check the vibe before committing.
I appreciate they say they need to learn more about 'exec' when asking GPT4,
it also plays well into some of the reading strategies I've seen to get a high-level understanding then read the documentation with more general idea going in, could also lower frustration for new engineers so they push through to the end!
I'd like to see a yearly benchmark for models, could be logic puzzles or a suit of tasks but as it stands there is not good way to measure the ability of models.