The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
I&#x27;ve been a programmer for a bit over ten years. I&#x27;ve worked at scrappy little startups, midsized companies, now for a tech giant for a few years. The engineers I work with at the tech giant are consistently better engineers than my other coworkers have been, and I credit the very structured interview process. We&#x27;re trained to ask specific questions, look for specific types of answers, and each interviewer is evaluating different criteria.<p>Also, it is quite often not the technical questions that end up making us decide not to hire someone. That&#x27;s just one area. I know it&#x27;s the part that sticks out, and candidates give a lot of weight to it in their memory of the interview, but you shouldn&#x27;t just assume it was that your whiteboard code wasn&#x27;t quite good enough. I actually don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the most common thing we give a &quot;no hire&quot; for.