You shouldn&#x27;t confuse &quot;getting a job there is hard&quot; with &quot;the interview process is random and skewed toward false negatives, with an especially bad job done with experienced candidates&quot;<p>---<p>&quot;Second problem: every &#x27;experienced&#x27; interviewer has a set of pet subjects and possibly specific questions that he or she feels is an accurate gauge of a candidate&#x27;s abilities. The question sets for any two interviewers can be widely different and even entirely non-overlapping.&quot; -- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;get-that-job-at-google.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;steve-yegge.blogspot.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;03&#x2F;get-that-job-at-goog...</a><p>&quot;I have 25 years of software development under my belt, I published a book, spoke at various conferences in Europe, have a Github profile (admittedly not very lively), worked for well-established enterprises and have great references. Why shall I still prove myself?&quot; -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10757186" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10757186</a>