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Yeah, you’re exaggerating. I work in the same industry you do, for longer than you have. These tests are ubiquitous. If you honestly haven’t hit them, you’re a

• scarface74 7y ago
  I’ll be even for specific. I’ve worked in Atlanta for over 20 years. Changed jobs 7 times (stayed at one job 6 years longer than I should have), dozens of interviews, maybe two outright rejections, over the last 10 years, 5 jobs, I had two coding interviews. One was a simple hands on coding interview where I had to make unit tests pass (something like a bowling score simulator) and the other a merge sort on the board (got offers for both). I’ve asked around about my coworkers experience over the years because I had never heard of algorithms style interviews until three years ago when I started reading HN and r/cscareerquestions. I thought all interviews were soft skill, language trivia, diagramming models and architecture, and explaining past projects.