[ryandrake]

23 years here and at this point I consider interviews to be 1d100 random dice rolls. No matter how much you prepare there is no way you can predict how sensible the interviewers are. I figure just deal with it and interview more. If each interview is 1% independent chance of getting an offer, and you interview 50 times, you have a 40% chance of getting an offer.

[nasalgoat]

You're right, it seems totally random. For one they had the Scrum Masters interview me and they felt I didn't have enough scrum experience. For another I had to try and compile a video encoder on a three generations out of date VM and it took all day and I got $100 for my time. Madness.

[kafkaIncarnate]

What was that interview for? That seems like an odd interview... What software were you compiling, ffmpeg?

[nasalgoat]

Some other ffmpeg knock-off. System admin work.