As something of an anecdotal rant, I did a take home a couple weeks ago, have a few code contributions on my github to a well known open source project, and was

As something of an anecdotal rant, I did a take home a couple weeks ago, have a few code contributions on my github to a well known open source project, and was asked to go on site. They proceeded to ask trivia question after trivia question and whiteboard scripting questions without ever revisiting the homework assignment or asking anything specific about the details of my code contributions, and now I’m glad I was rejected for not “being good enough at scripting (on a whiteboard)” because of how poorly they did that interview and likely would’ve said no if given an offer. This is similar to how I’ve been interviewed at other companies and it’s rare where the interview actually represents how well you’d do the job. The current company is one of the very few where they actually asked me to go over the code contributions I’ve made and do an applied task in person without whiteboarding a scripting task or too much trivia nonsense and has been fantastic gig overall. It really is a two way street.