Sadly, many companies today take the attitude that all applicants are incompetent liars and the interview is meant to expose them. Maybe they've been burned in the past but that doesn't really excuse it.
I didn't think these kinds of attitudes and techniques were all that common but my experiences in my recent job search revealed that they are. I had this kind of experience at 5 different companies. I'm just glad I finally found a company that didn't interview in such an adversarial manner.
On one hand I can kind of sympathize with employers. Doing interviews I get get the feeling that over 50% of applicants for programming can't program. In any sense of the word either, coding, problem sovling, admin, systems, devOps, data structures, etc. I wonder if other industries are this bad.
On the other hand, there's no real excuse for being a dick. It shouldn't take long to determine somebody is at least worthy of an interview. If the applicant is simply no good I'm in favour of just ending the interview early. I suppoes the dickishness comes from people interviewing non-stop bad candidates and feeling as though they're just wasting their time.
But again, even bad candidates deserve the courtesy of being treated like actual people.
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Sadly, many companies today take the attitude that all applicants are incompetent liars and the interview is meant to expose them. Maybe they've been burned in the past but that doesn't really excuse it.
I didn't think these kinds of attitudes and techniques were all that common but my experiences in my recent job search revealed that they are. I had this kind of experience at 5 different companies. I'm just glad I finally found a company that didn't interview in such an adversarial manner.
On one hand I can kind of sympathize with employers. Doing interviews I get get the feeling that over 50% of applicants for programming can't program. In any sense of the word either, coding, problem sovling, admin, systems, devOps, data structures, etc. I wonder if other industries are this bad.
On the other hand, there's no real excuse for being a dick. It shouldn't take long to determine somebody is at least worthy of an interview. If the applicant is simply no good I'm in favour of just ending the interview early. I suppoes the dickishness comes from people interviewing non-stop bad candidates and feeling as though they're just wasting their time.
But again, even bad candidates deserve the courtesy of being treated like actual people.