I’m pretty sympathetic to this. Anybody, me included, could definitely lock up. Who hasn’t had a day where their brain refuses to work. But the thing about int

I’m pretty sympathetic to this. Anybody, me included, could definitely lock up. Who hasn’t had a day where their brain refuses to work. But the thing about interviews is that you always want to heavily bias towards false negatives. A single bad hire is just astronomically costly. I think it’s fair to say that many smaller companies have literally been bankrupted by one incompetent person. When it comes to engineering positions, this is especially true. I’d rather nuke 20 good candidates having a bad day, then risk letting one bad engineer through the door. That’s why I’m skeptical that the interview process can even be “fixed”. Fundamentally it’s a mis-alignment of incentives. Employers have very strong to rule out candidates at even the slightest hint of incompetence. But for the interviewee, being judged so quickly, harshly and unfairly on a such a personal level makes them feel vulnerable and hurt.