Take time to do interviews. Phone is just first pass, the real interview is when youre talking to another software engineer and mutually digesting a problem and

Take time to do interviews. Phone is just first pass, the real interview is when youre talking to another software engineer and mutually digesting a problem and seeing how you'd approach it. Stop thinking of interviews as a test and start thinking of interviews as a date. Do I want to spend my week with this person? Do I want to actually work on stuff with this person? Outside of maybe Google, these are the questions most interviewers are asking.