I appreciate your response from this perspective, but I disagree with a lot of things. Lol!
The pop-quiz style interview is a similar phenomenon as a trick I use to cure hiccups. If someone is hiccuping, you ask them very directly and seriously, "When is the last time you saw a rabbit?" Nine times out of ten the person will freeze and say, "Uhhhh... [pause]"
Just the very notion of putting them on the spot and giving them pressure to respond immediately makes their hiccups cured.
If I were in the situation as an interviewer doing that to someone, I would personally feel quite sadistic, and it really doesn't apply to the real world.
Some of the most successful interviews I've had are very conversational style. You open a dialogue about an issue that you solved, and go into detail about your solutions. You should get a pretty good understanding of their capabilities, by A the terminology they used, B what steps they went through to come up with a solution.
I've also had a couple interviews that gave me tests using tools like brainbench.com.
I'll put it to you this way, when I got the pop-quiz I completely bombed it, verses when I took the test on brainbench.com with similar concepts days later, and scored 65% higher than other applicants. I actually got a response back from the one I bombed, but I didn't like the vibe from the interviewer and didn't pursue it further.
As far as the nervous thing goes, I could see that. For me personally though, when I get super nervous I lose control of my face muscles and start twitching. Then I'm primarily thinking about if they are noticing I'm twitching, and completely lose track of what we were talking about. Like anything though practice makes perfect, and now I feel a lot more comfortable meeting face to face. In my experience the more real you are, the better people respond. They want to know who they are going to form a working relationship with, and that's hard to see with a big bag of nerves.
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I appreciate your response from this perspective, but I disagree with a lot of things. Lol!
The pop-quiz style interview is a similar phenomenon as a trick I use to cure hiccups. If someone is hiccuping, you ask them very directly and seriously, "When is the last time you saw a rabbit?" Nine times out of ten the person will freeze and say, "Uhhhh... [pause]"
Just the very notion of putting them on the spot and giving them pressure to respond immediately makes their hiccups cured.
If I were in the situation as an interviewer doing that to someone, I would personally feel quite sadistic, and it really doesn't apply to the real world.
Some of the most successful interviews I've had are very conversational style. You open a dialogue about an issue that you solved, and go into detail about your solutions. You should get a pretty good understanding of their capabilities, by A the terminology they used, B what steps they went through to come up with a solution.
I've also had a couple interviews that gave me tests using tools like brainbench.com.
I'll put it to you this way, when I got the pop-quiz I completely bombed it, verses when I took the test on brainbench.com with similar concepts days later, and scored 65% higher than other applicants. I actually got a response back from the one I bombed, but I didn't like the vibe from the interviewer and didn't pursue it further.
As far as the nervous thing goes, I could see that. For me personally though, when I get super nervous I lose control of my face muscles and start twitching. Then I'm primarily thinking about if they are noticing I'm twitching, and completely lose track of what we were talking about. Like anything though practice makes perfect, and now I feel a lot more comfortable meeting face to face. In my experience the more real you are, the better people respond. They want to know who they are going to form a working relationship with, and that's hard to see with a big bag of nerves.