&gt; Almost no one passes all their programming interviews. This is true because of randomness in many interview processes (even great people are bad at some things, and an interviewer focusing on this can yield a blocking no).<p>Reading this is somewhat reassuring. I&#x27;ve been over some interviews lately and I had some trouble getting past the tech phone screen.<p>One particular rejection was very frustrating, because I&#x27;ve spend quite some time preparing for the interview. Failed the first one. Got a second chance. And I knew it was over about 5 minutes after it began. &quot;Can you write an algorithm that would sort efficiently this k-sorted array with a complexity strictly inferior to O(n log n)?&quot;. Yeah. No. Neither my job nor my hobbies includes sorting almost sorted arrays of integers, and O(n) complexity calculations.<p>It really seems to me that, being hired by a tech company is just completely random. Tech interviews in general are completely random. &quot;Just a numbers game&quot;