I read a great article the other week that talked about developers' ego and how the only truly common belief among us is that "I am smarter/better than everyone else". This seems to be a mix of that and pure perspective. Someone hiring wants to believe they can hire anyone and that they're doing you a service by interviewing you. Someone looking tends to believe that they are somehow better than every other candidate out there and therefore you'd be lucky to hire them. It's a two way process and neither party will be happy or productive unless both parties are both interviewers and interviewees.