[neilv]

Because traditionally good software engineers in an interview would treat each other as colleagues, not turn the meeting into a one-way hazing.

The CS101 hazing interview style was popularized by some CS students with no work experience, and then cargo-culted as religious rituals by others who also didn't have any other conception of what interviews for experienced professionals should be.

[__float]

Do you think interviewers at a company this size are deciding how interviews are run? They're basically just following a script.