There are lots of companies that don't ask any technical questions in interviews - these will definitely make many bad hires, that's true - there are lots of "s

There are lots of companies that don't ask any technical questions in interviews - these will definitely make many bad hires, that's true - there are lots of "software engineers" that just can't program anything. I'm not against the idea of asking technical stuff in an interview or asking somebody to scratch you a small program. What I'm against is this whole business of needing to prepare for many hour/days just to go to an interview. For the good-engineer going to companies with rigorous interview process argument, a really good engineer with high confidence then definitely wouldn't start reading books about how to answer interview questions and tricks but go to the interview without any preparation. However I'm not sure if he'd be better than a worse engineer that took the time to prepare for the interview...