[throwaway26960]

The interview process is great for employers...

1. Make qualified job interview candidate feel stupid by asking difficult questions unrelated to the job

2. Offer candidate low salary and argue that they barely passed the job interview

3. Profit

Best solution I can offer is to not play their game. You'll lose no matter how hard you try. You're better off studying marketing and psychology for job interviews.

[Vekz]

Great points about marketing and psychology. once you've won the lottery and got a whiteboard question, that you've prepared for. You additionally have to win unconscious biases of the interviewers and exhibit behavior that makes them judge you as a trusted "cultural fit" tribe member

[deegles]

Sigh. I completely crashed and burned at a phone screen once with a question that was easy but required knowing a bit shifting trick. I knew that the trick existed because I had glanced at it while studying and thought, "no way they'll ask that."

[falsedan]

> You're better off studying marketing and psychology for job interviews

Well, yeah. You should know how to sell yourself (to get past the resume screening process) and analyze the company's goals/culture/intent/desires (to avoid working at the next Uber).

[civilian]

Studying an algorithms book (like Cracking the Coding Interview or Programming Interviews Exposed) is also an effective way to "hack" the interview. :-P