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Maybe interviewing is over-important because of the frequency in which tech workers/engineers change jobs.

• titanomachy 10y ago
  Maybe un(der)employed programmers, who are naturally more concerned about interviewing, have extra free time and are thus over-represented on hacker news.
  • prodigal_erik 10y ago
    Even when I'm not the candidate, I'm asked to conduct a hell of a lot of interviews at work, and it's a huge time sink when the signal/noise is poor.
• sluggg 10y ago
  yes, I believe you are completely correct. It also seems like a common way for the engineering community as a whole to gain insight into a company's culture. It seems to me that these two ideas go hand in hand in a encouraging our fetishization of the tech interview
• Jemmeh 10y ago
  And tied into this, job changes are frequently said to be one of the best ways to get a raise.