>"I'd never thought about it this way before (look at who gets rejected and see what they have in common), but I guess there's one thing interviews are pretty good at filtering for: people who are a certain type of nervous in interviews."
Sounds about right. I can pass "take home quiz" style interviews at nearly 100%, but put me in front of a whiteboard and everything goes blank. Not sure why people insist on doing that.
Same experience here, I always chalked it up to anxiety. Tons of interviews, they generally love the hand-in stuff, but then whiteboarding kills me. Definitely jaded about it by now.
Sounds about right. I can pass "take home quiz" style interviews at nearly 100%, but put me in front of a whiteboard and everything goes blank. Not sure why people insist on doing that.