[samrift]

A technical interview whiteboard code or data structure gotchas or mt. fuji questions is a bad interview. It sucks that most technical interviews are bad, but that means we should fix them not remove them.

Our team "technical interviews" by having a technology discussion with the applicant. One of the first lines of question is figuring out what they are most familiar with so we can discuss that particular thing, area, library, or whatever. If a person can't discuss what they are most familiar with in the high-pressure interview, I'm not sure they can discuss something they just learned about in a team design meeting either. It's also a great way for the candidate to figure out if he wants to work with us - something that is just as important as the reverse.

Quit making technical interviews a quiz show. Quit checking off boxes on your form. Quit with BAD technical interviews. But don't remove them entirely - that's just as dumb.

*ps: github as a metric is also a bad metric.