Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”
I don&#x27;t know, hiring seems inherently broken.<p>Not just the algorithmic part, even the part leading up to it.<p>You have to impress a recruiter or an HR drone by listing all the buzzwords that are currently trendy.<p>Then, even after the algorithmic questions and interviews where you prove you can DO the job, you get rejected.<p>Every company I&#x27;ve worked for had trouble hiring.<p>I&#x27;m working for a company that also has trouble hiring right now.
Last week, the person interviewing our latest candidate told me that despite the candidate doing perfectly fine, he couldn&#x27;t come up with something that he felt excited about doing in his current job, which was a red flag for him.<p>I tried explaining that perhaps that&#x27;s something you shouldn&#x27;t expect from someone who&#x27;s at that point switching jobs.
We&#x27;re still discussing how hard it is to find good people.<p>Most of the companies I&#x27;ve interviewed for also have trouble hiring, yet I&#x27;ve been rejected for the most asinine reasons.
These companies have the same positions open years later and not due to growth.<p>All this rant is to say, we&#x27;re mostly doing this to ourselves.<p>I don&#x27;t have a better way of doing things, but I can&#x27;t just blame a handful of big corps for this, as if their technical interviews weren&#x27;t designed by technical folks themselves.