&quot;The first round had four interviewers in the room. It was an open-ended discussion about me, my accomplishments, my projects. To be honest, I was not prepared for this interview format, so my presentation was probably all over the place&quot;<p>A professional programmer, the one hired by a company to work alongside other professionals - as opposed to one working by themselves on small projects - is capable of presenting previous experiences and applying them to new problems. Unless you want to be put in the basement and handed small chunks of work to solve. It&#x27;s about how you mentor juniors, resolve disagreements on how to proceed, deal with set backs and changing requirements.<p>Given the whole post is about how terrible the interviewing process is the above quote is the most telling, and backs up the GPs point - not being prepared to have a conversation about your previous experience when interviewing for a job is pretty bad.