Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills (2020)
As someone who didn't go to school, I struggle with doing algorithms and implementing data structures in front of someone. Outside of timeboxed interviews I negotiate them fairly well, but I'm almost always seeing something for the first time. Then again, for as long as I've been in software it's always been tailored for academics. This seems to be just fine and even championed as a good thing.My reaction is to plan my exit from the industry whenever this job comes to an end. I'll end up going back to school in my thirties, despite being qualified, because of self-imposed constraints by this industry that have little if anything to do with the tasks I'll be given or planning day to day.