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After significant experience on both sides of the table I am completely lost. As interviewer I feel the best I can do in the short time I have is to weed out t
by Traubenfuchs 7y ago
After significant experience on both sides of the table I am completely lost.
As interviewer I feel the best I can do in the short time I have is to weed out those so incompetent and badly fitting where I wonder why they even applied for the job. E.g.Java developer position and they can't do a simple stream.filter.map.collect task.
As interviewee I rarely even get the slightest interest of actually taking the job if they want me.
I usually don't feel any enthusiasm on the other side and I have a hard time appearing to be enthusiastic myself. Candidates interests usually boil down to "I want more money", "I want a less outdated tech stack", "I want better management" and "I am depressed and want change for change's sake".
In the end, most software development jobs suck and employers are just looking for code monkeys, hoping they will find some that will stay for more than a year or two. Applicants are fed up with pretending they have any personal interest in software development beyond the wages they get for it.