{"id":92853,"date":"2026-05-30T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92853"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:50:20","slug":"technical-interview-interviewing-was-broken-long-before-i-learned-the-trade-and-despite-the-many-attempts-to-band-aid-it-its-still-broken-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92853","title":{"rendered":"Technical Interview: \u201cinterviewing was broken long before I learned the trade, and despite the many attempts to band-aid it, it\u2019s still broken today\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steve-yegge.medium.com\/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564\">https:\/\/steve-yegge.medium.com\/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A poor test. This is a fascinating discussion from a very smart person who has thought a lot about interviewing. Also \u2026 Geoworks!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recruiters had tricked us into reviewing our own interview packets, and we had voted not to hire most of our own group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I once did some medical student interviews. Same problems. It\u2019s random<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/steve-yegge.medium.com\/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564 A poor test. This is a fascinating discussion from a very smart person who has thought a lot about interviewing. Also \u2026 Geoworks! \u201cThe recruiters had tricked us into reviewing our own interview packets, and we had voted not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92853\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92854,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92853\/revisions\/92854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}