Hmm...but if everybody is stressed out, then it equalizes and you're testing for skills again, just skills under pressure. And having skills retained under pre

Hmm...but if everybody is stressed out, then it equalizes and you're testing for skills again, just skills under pressure. And having skills retained under pressure is actually a valuable trait in this industry. And at least at desirable companies, the process is designed to minimize false positive, it doesn't care that much about false negatives. This is by design. My guess would be that they filter out orders of magnitude more people with poor resume-writing skills or that didn't go to the right school. Although I do agree that interviews that you can/must practice for are silly and there's a lot oof that around.