The Broken Technical Interview Process: When Theory Overshadows Practical Skills
The technical interview process in the software industry is broken. As someone who has been on both sides of the interview table, I’ve noticed a concerning trend: companies are testing candidates on complex algorithmic problems that rarely appear in day-to-day work. The Current State Picture this: You’re a seasoned developer with years of experience building scalable applications, writing clean code, and solving real business problems. You apply for a position, and what do you face in the coding challenge? Questions about implementing a Red-Black tree, solving complex dynamic programming problems, or optimizing an algorithm to find the nth Fibonacci number. ...