[alkonaut]

The problem isn't technical interviews it's bad technical interviews. I think this is pretty "regional", with many people reporting big tech companies in e.g. the Bay Area doing things like have people code textbook algorithms on whiteboards.

Technical interviews where you look at some code and review it, or is asked to broadly describe how to design a system etc isn't unreasonable, and as you say it's better than judging only on poise...