[hobls]

People always talk about the whiteboard interview, and assume it has the greatest weight, but the other questions are just as important. There are plenty of things being measured, and technical ability is often not the one that disqualifies a candidate. The other questions do tend to come from a standardized bank of questions too; the whole thing is very structured.

[crispyambulance]

This. I wonder how many people "think" they flubbed an interview strictly because they got some detail wrong on the whiteboard when it was really far more related to a negative impression of grit, communication, motivation, personality, or work-history.

[ryandrake]

And we will never know because the vast majority of companies refuse to give even the vaguest of feedback on the reason they are not moving forward. Not even “it was your technical knowledge” or “it was communication skills”

[hobls]

I think it's a lot! If you had a reasonably decent answer to the whiteboard questions it's often fine if you don't actually get it right.

There are a lot of other ways to screw up an interview.