Candidates lie quite a bit and the rest of the interviewing nightmare trickles from there. I've had two candidates show up for interviews, who used the title So

Candidates lie quite a bit and the rest of the interviewing nightmare trickles from there. I've had two candidates show up for interviews, who used the title Software Engineer on their resume, who couldn't write any code. That was a shocking discovery at the time and I'm someone who has worked in SRE alongside Operations folks who faked their way into SRE titles. That said, the state of interviewing is completely unacceptable. The algorithm tests ensure that mostly college attending candidates pass them. Take home exercises are very burdensome for people with kids. The company LightBulb that did a LaunchHN recently I think gives us the best hope for improving interviewing going forward.