Unless you're desperate, it's best for all the industry if people don't. We can't mature the software industry hiring practices by playing along.
> Angry screeds will not change anything about the industry and will not help you.
Granted, they won't help the OP directly at the moment. But there is value in constantly calling out how broken hiring has become in this industry. Change won't happen by keeping quiet.
I do my little part (in a technical leadership position) by never interviewing using the algorithm monkeydance. I don't care if you can regurgitate this or that algorithm on a whiteboard. Because we don't do that in the day jobs I'm hiring people for. I interview based on your real world experience because at my company we build real world products. I've never hired anyone to a role of sitting in a room rewriting algorithms on a whiteboard (almost certainly never will), so I'm not going to interview for that irrelevant skill set.
To anyone who has been less than ~15 years in this industry, it's good to know that it wasn't always this way. Interviews used to be sane, based on experience. It's a relatively recent phenomenon how things have gone so wrong.
Unless you're desperate, it's best for all the industry if people don't. We can't mature the software industry hiring practices by playing along.
> Angry screeds will not change anything about the industry and will not help you.
Granted, they won't help the OP directly at the moment. But there is value in constantly calling out how broken hiring has become in this industry. Change won't happen by keeping quiet.
I do my little part (in a technical leadership position) by never interviewing using the algorithm monkeydance. I don't care if you can regurgitate this or that algorithm on a whiteboard. Because we don't do that in the day jobs I'm hiring people for. I interview based on your real world experience because at my company we build real world products. I've never hired anyone to a role of sitting in a room rewriting algorithms on a whiteboard (almost certainly never will), so I'm not going to interview for that irrelevant skill set.
To anyone who has been less than ~15 years in this industry, it's good to know that it wasn't always this way. Interviews used to be sane, based on experience. It's a relatively recent phenomenon how things have gone so wrong.