> I fear power interviewers lose the ability (or desire?) to assess candidates through their performance instead of strictly assess the performance. This is a

> I fear power interviewers lose the ability (or desire?) to assess candidates through their performance instead of strictly assess the performance. This is an interesting point, because I feel like that's how large companies treat employee performance in general. I often hear stories of talented engineers being treated as cogs or passed over for promotions, such as the classic protobuf maintainer example. Perhaps the assembly line fashion of interviews is reflective of how large bureaucracies treat employees as a whole.