[bluetomcat]

I am very fed up with the whole "ability to work under pressure" expectation. Companies that emphasize this almost always have a totally broken work organization process.

At the end of the day, programmers are not emergency workers and need some rest and calmness to do their work efficiently.

[ChemicalWarfare]

That + the fact that no matter how strong the candidate is unless we're talking some well-known genius, the personal dynamics of the interview is the candidate wants something (the job) the interviewer "has" so it's skewed from the get go.