It's a fair point. Unless you've got a body of work that inspires a manager to recruit you with a stack of spicy magazines and a basket full of candies and fru

It's a fair point. Unless you've got a body of work that inspires a manager to recruit you with a stack of spicy magazines and a basket full of candies and fruit, there's a specific dance when interviewing. It's like an audition. At issue isn't whether you can do a task. Instead, whoever is hiring wonders can you do a task with me. So there's some jumping through hoops. The hope is that in the process of evaluating and sailing through the hoops, the interview group can establish how you solve problems, how you approach interaction with others, how you take direction, how constructively you can disagree, and maybe, as a smidgeon of the evaluation, how well you actually know your thing. In the end there's plenty you can teach about how to do the job to best suit the task and the company that's hiring. No one can teach you how to be a person, so the fit has to work. It's miserable working with jackasses who are technically competent but personally toxic.