[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. :)