A Humility Training Exercise for Technical Interviewers
This is a great suggestion that closely aligns with my own thoughts and experiences with technical interviews.<p>I&#x27;ve had some recent experience with technical interviews, and my first big takeaway was that the current interview process is broken largely because it&#x27;s too common for the interview to never surface the _strengths_ of a candidate, and instead only to highlight their weaknesses.  For every candidate, there is literally an infinite number of things they do not know. Surfacing those deficiencies has no purpose or value unless those weaknesses are _directly_ relevant to the job role–which is hardly ever the case when talking about DS&amp;A questions.<p>The second lesson I learned is that interviewers need more training because there is a <i></i>vast<i></i> difference between good and bad interviewers–and almost all of it comes down to communication skills. If we don&#x27;t finish a warm-up problem because it takes me 30 minutes to decode and understand the question that the interviewer is trying to ask...that&#x27;s a problem.