I've been a software engineer for 10 years and I can't do interview questions
If you hate the idea of coding questions as part of interviews, please consider the other side for a moment.<p>There are people out there (not you, obviously) who can talk their way into an interview for programming jobs that they simply can&#x27;t perform.  We&#x27;re talking about no skills whatsoever, apart from the ability to sling buzzwords around enough to impress a recruiter.  God only knows how they get their degrees, but they have them.<p>Simple, straightforward programming questions that aren&#x27;t already on the Web are like an immune system response to these non-programmers who interview for programming jobs.  I&#x27;m truly sorry when a real programmer feels insulted when I ask them something like &quot;given the starting and ending times of two calendar appointments, write an expression that&#x27;s true if they conflict&quot;, because it&#x27;s not their fault that there are people out there who will struggle for 20 minutes thinking about how to solve it before trying something like a doubly-nested loop over all the milliseconds in both intervals, testing for equality.<p>I am not making this up.  It&#x27;s a real problem.  if you can program a digital computer, you have nothing to fear from a <i>good</i> coding interview.  And if you have a better way to reliably identify the non-programmers, I&#x27;d love to hear it.