Yeah I agree 100%. A good technical interview should involve a lot of different parts. Some programming, some conversational. Essentially, there's 100 differen

Yeah I agree 100%. A good technical interview should involve a lot of different parts. Some programming, some conversational. Essentially, there's 100 different things you need to know to do your job well. The job of a good technical interview is to give you a (biased) sample from those 100 elements of knowledge. So, some practical programming work. Some conversational - "how is this going to be deployed and maintained". Etc.