This type of company be very careful with your application.

Asking candidates about their personal life is intrusion of people's privacy.

Most often this type of companies will find personal faults to fire you once you're no longer needed.

Also what you said is true, they are trying to steal people's ideas and thoughts with these type of tests. They are not serious in hiring and only want to test the market.

Imagine if they can be so intrusive, they can also sell your information to others to make a buck out of it.

If you're confident of your skills and abilities, just ignore or leave them out blanks. You might not get the job but at least you did society a favor of not selling out.

In some cases from my experiences, some very firm and capable candidates with self integrity during interview sessions, if they were made to wait beyond what was agreed upon for the session or asked silly questions during the interviews, they'd just walk right out without a single word.

There is no future career path with these sort of companies which takes advantages of people's desperation.

If you're experienced candidate you have the right not to reply or answer sus questions that is irrelevant to official work.

Questions such as:

1) Your marital status

2) Do you have schooling children? How many children you have in your family?

3) If your spouse working?

4) Do you have family members or relatives working in the same industry?

5) Do you have family side businesses after official working hours?

6) What kind of books do you read during free time? Name 3 of your fav books.

7) What kind of investments do you approve of? Do you have crypto investments? Which kind of crypto coins would you recommend?

8) State your religion and faith

All these type of questions seems legal and allowed in our 3rd world countries but in Europe they can be illegal because they are intrusive and non relevant to the job.

Even if you answer them very honestly your answers are going to bring weight to your hiring consideration.

Marital status for example and do you have schooling kids/children. If you answer SINGLE/BACHELOR, no children your chances of getting hired despite qualifying completely for the job may be significantly REDUCED.

This is one example how how DIVERSITY hires has become in some Western countries:



They are no more looking for suitable well qualified and skilled people but are looking beyond that. They want loyal hires which are burdened with responsibilities, cannot complain, would beg to keep their jobs and do as told obedient servants.