Hiring manager here, and after many interviews with enterprise programmers, I do find myself putting more and more of them into the &quot;no&quot; pile right off the bat.<p>The problem is that those candidates, in my experience, tend to throw up way more red flags than others - their code is extremely verbose, they rattle off factory patterns like they&#x27;re reading a textbook without any inkling what sort of problems they&#x27;re actually solving, they parrot popular opinions without being able to articulate the reasoning behind them, they&#x27;re not comfortable with developing a new feature without extensive documentation, and they miss the forest for the trees when it comes to things like testing and code organization.<p>Enterprise programmers usually leave me with the impression that they&#x27;re heavily indoctrinated into one specific mode of thought, and that they would struggle to break out of it.