Many interviews center on “can they write code in some some trendy style”. It’s some combination of basic literacy and fashion. Employers are clearly looking to

Many interviews center on “can they write code in some some trendy style”. It’s some combination of basic literacy and fashion. Employers are clearly looking to commoditize programming in these cases and are willing to burn money doing it, because it seems a large portion of corporate developers cannot write original software. Worse, that is easy to fake by asking AI basic literacy questions. If employers really wanted to hire people who can actually write software interviews would be a conversation stepping through a process to solve a complex problem. Examples of complex problem spaces: Performance, Accessibility, Security, Transmission Control. From the perspective of the candidate the quality of questions and candidate filtering indicate whether the employer is just trying to put bodies in seats, jockey configurations, or advanced copy/paste. Writing original software isn’t that hard, but it does take practice most employers won’t provide.