Talking about patterns, technologies, how I would architect&#x2F;design a specific solution or how I would approach a technical problem is not a technical interview, IMO. And I would be glad to answer these questions, which are fair and interesting.
What I&#x27;m talking about are the quizzes and the puzzles, the invert-a-binary-tree riddles or, as it happened to a friend recently, to write a full blown application with tests and stuff and don&#x27;t even bother explaining why the application was rejected.<p>It doesn&#x27;t make sense anyway. In 25 years, the sheer amount of cowboys I have seen literally bringing down projects out of incompetence and lack of humility is staggering. And these guys were hired out of technical riddles.