I think being contrarian for it's own sake is a dick move, and any benefit is secondary. Jobs may have thought he was being clever, but he was just being a dick. This seems to be pretty typical of his early years: Apple succeeded because of his vision, and despite his management.

You're making the classic mistake of assuming that there is only one kind of asshole in the world.

Just within the limited world of software recruiting, there are a vast variety of dick moves you could make:

SIGNS THAT YOU ARE A RECRUITING ASSHOLE

Ask them about manhole covers or how many grand pianos does it take to fill an olympic size swimming pool. Although if your software makes heavy use of geometry or solves packing problems respectively, you're excused. Otherwise, here's your sign.

If your company only want PhDs, here's your sign.

If your company only wants PhDs but you'll interview someone with a Masters just to prove how egalitarian you are, here's your sign.

Ask them about their experience with trivial or unrelated technologies. If it took me 5 minutes to learn it and become productive in it, why do you care whether I have 10+ years of 'experience' with it? Here's your sign.

Ask them about their experience with tools. If you need someone to fix your enterprise server's config, that is an entirely different job. (If you're interviewing for a programming position, but you want them to do double duty as a system or network admin... here's your sign.) If you let a complexifier diddle around with your Ant build so that it no longer works, congratulations you're an asshole and I don't want to work for you (here's your sign). One IDE is much like another. If there is something especially hard and difficult about the day to day use of your IDE, why are you still using it? Here's your sign.

If you low-ball the initial salary offer on the off-chance they might accept it, here's your sign.

If you tell them they didn't get it because you want them to argue with you about why they are the best person for the job, here's your sign. (Doesn't Spolsky do this or praise it in one of his essays? Yes you want them to be keen, but don't pee in their porridge to find out if they'll still eat it)

If you don't hire women, blacks, latinos, $minority or disabled people, here's your sign.

If you don't hire people unless they love Obama, here's your sign.

If you don't hire people because of their religion or lack thereof, here's your sign. (Religious charities and similar get a free pass on this)

If you keep interviewing even after you've decided on a particular candidate, here's your sign.

If you make them fly out to you rather than do a phone interview, here's your sign.

If you don't think self-training in programming is worth something, here's your sign. (And you'll miss a lot of good candidates. Ha ha. // points and laughs )