Bravo! Part of the reason HR is so broken is that few will speak up when exposed to this kind of crap. Thus the crap peddlers (I used to be one of the trick question kind, merely because I was emulating others) are left with the idea that they're following "best practices" or some such nonsense.

Job candidates should be turning down companies as often as companies should be declining to make offers.

If you're not ready to walk away, then you're desperate and you're going to end up in a crappy job.