[aaomidi]

Has anyone else kinda decided they're done doing technical interviews? If you *really* want me, then just give me an offer and let's negotiate.

I'm getting to the point where I'm just going to say if my work experience doesn't provide you with enough information about my technical ability then you can go hire someone fresh out of school who's done l33tcode 24/7 for the last few months.

[ownagefool]

The thing about tech interviews, is they're not just testing you, but also ensure your colleagues are at a minimal viable level. The alternatives are:

- You only hire folks with prestige; pulling the ladder up for everyone else.

- You fire fast; potentially screwing up peoples lives.

- You carry dead weight that slows everyone else down.

Of course, some of the interviews go a bit far. I had one with at ~15 calls, at least 7 of them "interviews". Most of them went well enough, but the architectual was somewhat egregious where I was asked a bit of a trick question, asked some clarifiying questions and got conflicting statements. I asked for a redo, and got a nope, then ended up in the weirdest offer stage I've experienced.

I try to keep that in mind when people propose we add more hurdles to our process. :)

[jareklupinski]

same, but be prepared to no longer be offered those kinds of positions

as long as your resume/linkedin shows that you have clearly passed once and have exceeded "leetcode level" for a number of years, you should already be getting emails for "Staff/Lead" positions that end with "got 15 minutes for a chat to see if we're right for you?"

helps to have a site/project/blog/portfolio along with a github to breeze past the phone/culture screens :)