I was job hunting about a year ago and got rejected several times for this reason. The worst part? Each one was a small startup just trying to get a new product

I was job hunting about a year ago and got rejected several times for this reason. The worst part? Each one was a small startup just trying to get a new product off the ground. In one interview the engineer interviewing me explained how they didn’t have any paying customers, and then went on to describe an elaborate over-engineered micro-service based architecture he was working on. The real kicker was that instead of asking me about my 20 years building products, or our infrastructure at my last gig that handled millions of customers across the globe, he instead wanted to watch me code some goofy coding quiz he had prepared.