[wildmanx]

> I've seen a few interviews in my time. On the order of 5k of them)

Sorry, your "5k" doesn't pass the smell test, unless you can give some convincing reason why 20 years of one interview per day would be believable.

So, I'm calling BS. You just seem bitter about interviews that you don't like and are trying to con people into giving your opinion more weight than that of others.

Besides, if other companies are doing interviewing "wrong" as you think, then just do it "right" in yours and have a competitive edge by hiring all those brilliant coders that other companies are too stupid recognizing. That would be a reason for you to be joyful instead of bitter, no?

[groby_b]

If you interview at a traditional tech company, you go through 5-8 interviews in a day. If somebody were to review, say, around 4 of these packets every week, they see about 20-30 interviews every week. That's ~1000-1500 a year. The 5K mark comes faster than you think.

And if you work at a company that size, changing the interview process is a bit more work than "oh, we just won't do that".

Not everybody works at a small startup.