There are very few options outside of coding interviews, and getting fewer by the day. It's almost like everyone big and small is standardizing on this model.

There are very few options outside of coding interviews, and getting fewer by the day. It's almost like everyone big and small is standardizing on this model. Feels like one of those mandatory courses you took in college: the teacher and all the students knew it was bullshit yet you needed to perform the parroting at some adequate level to pass. I have 21 years of varied experience in software engineering, yet a recent "technical" phone interview was a kid asking me to "balance a B-tree"; I can tell his expectation was for me to start reciting some CS algorithm BS, probably that's what everyone else is doing. I politely declined and that was the end of the interviewing process with that company.