I'm scared of whiteboard interviews and quizzes about stdlib quirks. I find them pointless and not really bringing any value to the table. Luckily, my last two interviews were without tech assignment - they were supposed to have one, but apparently I convinced interviewers that there's no point in doing that.
But yeah, tech hiring is seriously broken. I think that people doing it, regular programmers by day, just somehow feel challenged and need to show that they are supreme to a person being recruited. Once I've heard this told directly - a guy in my company responsible for technical interview advised me to always have one or two ridiculously difficult questions at hand, just to "completely destroy" the interviewee in case he or she looks too good. Despite the advice, I never did such thing. But I'm aware of more people living by this principle.
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I'm scared of whiteboard interviews and quizzes about stdlib quirks. I find them pointless and not really bringing any value to the table. Luckily, my last two interviews were without tech assignment - they were supposed to have one, but apparently I convinced interviewers that there's no point in doing that.
But yeah, tech hiring is seriously broken. I think that people doing it, regular programmers by day, just somehow feel challenged and need to show that they are supreme to a person being recruited. Once I've heard this told directly - a guy in my company responsible for technical interview advised me to always have one or two ridiculously difficult questions at hand, just to "completely destroy" the interviewee in case he or she looks too good. Despite the advice, I never did such thing. But I'm aware of more people living by this principle.