Why the Traditional Technical Interview Is Dying and What's Replacing It
By
Steve Yegge
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
A veteran engineer with 35 years of experience argues that the traditional technical interview process is fundamentally broken and finally dying. The article explores the history of technical interviews, their many flaws (including bias, irrelevance to actual job performance, and stress-inducing formats), and emerging alternatives that are replacing them, such as take-home projects, portfolio-based assessments, and more holistic evaluation methods.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThis post has been almost 35 years in the making; that's how long I have been conducting technical interviews.
It turns out interviewing was broken long before I learned the trade, and despite the many attempts to band-aid it, it's still broken today.
Today we will pour one out for the vaunted technical interview process, which is on its last leg.
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