I like how you are assuming that I'm writing this out of sour grapes. I've never failed a technical interview. As always, there are an ample supply of folks (of

I like how you are assuming that I'm writing this out of sour grapes. I've never failed a technical interview. As always, there are an ample supply of folks (of, ahem, rather varying achievement levels) on Hacker News who always seem to fondly imagine themselves on peering dubiously over their glasses at my while I supplicate for a job. :-) Maybe you could try to apply the supposed Hacker News rule of not assuming the person you are responding to is a complete idiot? I'm startled to think that you assume that I wouldn't understand that interviews are typically competitive processes where some people get hired in the end and (at sufficiently desirable jobs) most people don't. Instead, you could maybe think through whether "competence" == "ability to pass typical BigCo coding interviews" and my actual point? Really, basically any of my points? I have met, and worked with, people in all 4 quadrants of that particular pair of qualities.