Some years back I wrote a post about interviewing, from the point of view of the _interviewer_. I emphasised that during the interview, the candidate is the mos

Some years back I wrote a post about interviewing, from the point of view of the _interviewer_. I emphasised that during the interview, the candidate is the most important person in the world. It only later dawned to me that our industry has a non-trivial fraction of people for whom empathy is a foreign concept. They're not sociopaths, because those folks can at least feign empathy - we're talking about individuals who can't see themselves in another person's situation at all. On top of that, we don't really provide actual interview training to engineers either. Out of all the people I personally know in London, only one (1) has received formal interview training. Is it any wonder that the interview gauntlet is such an awful experience for pretty much everyone?