[enraged_camel]

>>Then to get over my interviewing jitters, I interview at a few companies where I would absolutely not work at. This results in no pressure interview practise and you can literally laugh at their asinine interview questions and walk out

This sounds very unethical and dishonest. It's the equivalent of a company interviewing a candidate they have zero intention of hiring, ever. Why waste people's time?

edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted. Am I wrong? How would you feel if you spent time preparing for an interview, did the interview and then found out the company didn't intend to hire you in the first place?

[mavelikara]

You are right, this is not ideal - this is waste of time. Which is probably why the OP lead the comment with:

> This article makes me sad. Interviewing in our industry is so broken.

Yet:

> It's the equivalent of a company interviewing a candidate they have zero intention of hiring, ever.

If the company has one position to fill, and if they ever interview/contact more than one person for filling that position all the people who they contacted other than the person who got the job has wasted time, right?

In short, companies have only themselves to blame for this (sad) situation.

[enraged_camel]

>>If the company has one position to fill, and if they ever interview/contact more than one person for filling that position all the people who they contacted other than the person who got the job has wasted time, right?

No, this is more like the company interviewing people when there are -- and will be -- no positions to fill. It's like a hiring manager going, "man, I really need some practice interviewing people, I should go post some jobs on job sites!"

[adrenalinelol]

Companies reject candidates (and thus waste their time) for extremely arbitrary reasons. I'd suspect you're being down-voted by those who feel they've suffered such.