Here&#x27;s some advice.<p>Avoid companies with stupid hiring policies.<p>It seems that these guys want you to code like they do, and they&#x27;ll eventually find someone &quot;close enough&quot; - eventually. After wasting many man hours of interview time. You don&#x27;t want to work with these guys.<p>You want to find a company that appreciates you for the developer you are, which appears to be someone who knows his own limitations and has ways of mitigating those limitations.<p>You have no idea how much <i>that</i> is worth. Simple mistakes like forgetting api parameters, the occasional typo and off-by one errors gets all of us. Especially in a high stress environment like an interview.<p>I feel that a common &quot;you&#x27;re not technical enough&quot; to be a lazy excuse, or to replace a poorer one such as &quot;your face didn&#x27;t fit&quot;, you are too bright and will show us up, or &quot;we liked another candidate better&quot;.<p>I feel your pain with the interview process. I&#x27;m a contractor and I hear lots of bullsh*t all the time from agencies and recruiters. Stick with it, and do a side project that proves to yourself that you&#x27;re worth it.<p>sockpuppet account for obvious reasons.