This post is obviously overly-biased against technical interviews. Steve Yegge said it best: "It's a bit easier to tell if someone's in great shape physically t

This post is obviously overly-biased against technical interviews. Steve Yegge said it best: "It's a bit easier to tell if someone's in great shape physically than if they're in great shape mentally. You can't just stare at their brain and hope to find a six-pack in all those folds." - http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programming http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programm... Reading this did remind me an old thread on StackOverflow though about some CS grad who still didn't feel like she knew how to code: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/43528/im-graduating-with-a-computer-science-degree-but-i-dont-feel-like-i-know-how-to http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/43528/im-grad...