Obsession with twngan

Dealing with HR people sometimes is a pain. Particularly when they try to play mind games with you, or at least think that they're playing with you. Here are some highlights.

• Don't say that money is not your top priority. They take it as a hint to mark down your salary and a waive of your right to complain about how stingy they are.
• If you really complain hard, they'll claim that matching your other offers is "outside your region." But if you insist, they'll be a bit open for you to name your price.
  
• If you tell them their work is cool, they'll take that as an advantage and play down other companies as "their work is not as cool as ours."
  
• Never believe a word from them. They would claim that it is impossible for them to wait a bit for the result of your other interviews, but if you decline their offer, all of a sudden they'll decide that they can wait.
• My HR is at least honest. She literally told me that I'm "hard to read." Am I taken as a stupid code monkey?
  

Maybe this is the normal strategy for HR. But somehow I don't feel like working for those companies. Perhaps I should just ignore them altogether and interview with one of the research labs of The Colored Giant?