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by thiagocesar 2236 days ago
I understand your frustration, but it seems clear to me that there is difference in what you consider high level technical skills, and what others might perceive as such.

In a highly paid position, both selling yourself and your ideas, and smoothing out differences such as this one, are expected from the employee.

While I believe that with your experience, you have accomplished a high degree of strong delivery... You still need to be able to manage this whole dealing with people thing. Because that’s why you get paid a high salary, to get any issues out of the way in a skilled manner.

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It's pretty indisputable that the industry has a penchant for interviewing problems/techniques that are deliberately unrealistic.

Whiteboarding interviews aren't about a lack of time in interviews, for instance, theyre an homage to the academic background of many of the initial internet trailblazers (google, et al).

The problem is that this whole dealing with people thing isn’t solely dependent on yourself, the people you are dealing with need to go along.
> I understand your frustration, but it seems clear to me that there is difference in what you consider high level technical skills, and what others might perceive as such.

Or the person who did the interview is an asshole. It's pretty hard to say which one it is. Smoothing out differences such as this one is expected not only from the employee, but also from the interviewer.