The best interview I've ever had was I was asked how I might design a real user feature for their company and review a sloppy PR with errors. For the first I ca

The best interview I've ever had was I was asked how I might design a real user feature for their company and review a sloppy PR with errors. For the first I came up with two options and weighed the best reason for each and which I might go with depending on the circumstances of the project. For the second I wrote PR comments I would leave any developer with suggestions for improvements, concerns, and praise for good work. That was representative of my actual job as a software engineer. The normal is taking some sort of tricky pop quiz styled questionnaire, which in my opinion was not representative of anything about me beyond I know how to use a for loop efficiently. Yet this is what I find these companies offer. They tout them as a quick fix cause its easy to standardize, analyze, and hard to do therefore good, and last but not least waste the candidates time but not the companies. Their the metrics are moot. Not only have they been proven to be ineffective by the big companies that spawned them, but I also find them demoralizing and a turn off. It seems like the industry is heading towards a self imposed SAT style quiz where the lucky winner of this startup war holds all the power and provides little benefit to either side of this process.