So true. Interviewing, as everyone knows, is broken in our industry. I liked TripleByte’s 4-part in-person interview a lot, but they ditched it because something like 1% of candidates actually passed it. I’m not sure how consistent their interviewers were, however, because while I failed both my interviews, I’d pass with the best scores from both. My score went up in one area but down in another the second time around. Exact same coding problems too. 🤷‍♀️ I wish they didn’t give up on those interviews.

They had some other issues, detailed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541676

Anyway yes, very nonsensical how 10 YoE is preferred to 0 YoE in that language because “you don’t know the language”. All through college I was told again and again how “you learn one language and you kind of learn them all.” Maybe by the time our grandkids are software engineers they will have interviewing figured out.