Ask HN: How to deal with inexperienced interviewers?
I am at my wits end. I am getting exhausted and drained in these interviews.<p>There are times where I just botch interviews. Here and there, I look back and realize I came off the wrong way, like wow, I did that. But I reflect, and strive to get better. Sometimes it&#x27;s just not a fit. Or someone comes along that&#x27;s a better option than me.<p>But there is a growing pocket of places I interview at where they blatantly lie, bait and switch, ignore my portfolio and go right into brainteasers, code golf, and refactors that have absolutely nothing to do with the role being filled. Then radio silence.<p>I&#x27;m coming to the conclusion I&#x27;d rather earn less and work more hours on my own than enable this system. Because I have an indictment far more damning the OP: Some of the people interviewing me can barely code and are trying to survive another day. Not to mention, there are some who are afraid of letting in a stronger candidate that could replace them. Heh, what do you think they do?<p>Last interview I had, I discussed multiple times it being in Django and Python. Come the time of our call, interviewer flipped the script, it&#x27;s in JavaScript, Underscore, and the data being passed around is so ambiguous it meshed together in my mind through the remainder of our call. I don&#x27;t know if it&#x27;s a clueless interviewer - or a really shrewd one who knew how to lay one over me.<p>Or is it me? The problem I face is getting beat down by all these tests makes me feel I&#x27;m not a good coder. Due to the fog of Dunning-Kruger, I know I can never be sure if the deficit is really on my end or not.<p>Does anyone else out there feel this?<p>I have published code all over. I code 10+ hours a day, even on the weekends. I get hammered in technical interviews.