| I've worked as a SE for 8y, in 4 different countries and in both product development and consultancies. As it had been pointed out here by most people interviewing sucks. It sucked in every country for me (some more than others). The process was superficial and usually didn't give the employer a decent picture about my skillsets nor did I get a decent picture of the company's environment/tech/culture, meaning a "we want to implement a new data analysis platform and ML on top of our web app" was only a nice attraction statement. Both parties tend to tell some fairy tales what they think the opposite would like to hear just not to miss out on a possible opportunity. It's a bad habbit that I've done myself in the past because I don't have employees knocking on my door every day with a contract in their hands. One of the issues is probably that a company doesn't know the person who is being interviewed. Just because someone got hired by 5 companies before and has 10y experience doesn't mean they know their stuff and therefore everyone has to go through the same tidious process again and again. Couldn't there be an evaluation of someones problem solving skills and ability to built systems, that has a value for all (or certain years) of upcoming interviews? Lets say I take a test, that evalutates my "can solve problems" and "can built awesome cloud tech" skills and provides a certificate for it which is valid for 5y. Of course you'd also able to update your skills whenever you've learned something new! So every company looking for a new employee searches in that pool of professionals with pre-evaluated soft and hard skills for a suitable match. Not like LinkedIn where you can claim whatever you like but rather evaluated by other professionals who will vouch for you. |