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Discussion on: How Do You Conduct A Mock Interview?

 
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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.