- When you're a freelancer meeting with a prospective client, that client probably isn't meeting with 20+ other freelancers for the same job/project. On the oth

- When you're a freelancer meeting with a prospective client, that client probably isn't meeting with 20+ other freelancers for the same job/project. On the other hand, when you're interviewing for a job, you could be one of 20 or more prospectives. - I have been rejected in interviews for the most arbitrary of things. I was once rejected because I didn't know what __call__() did in Python, and because I didn't know about Partial objects in the functools library (part of the Python standard library). These are things that I was able to look up in < 5 minutes after the interview. This to me comes across as, "I don't know how to interview people, so I'm just going to ask a bunch of obscure 'gotchas' and hire the people that get them right." No one in their right mind is going to go into that level of detail when talking to a freelancer. - "Having a Github account," seems like a requirement these days, but I don't think that anyone at any company I have interviewed with has actually looked at the code that I have written beyond maybe counting the number of repos and the types of projects. This seems like exactly the kind of thing that people would want to do to hire a freelancer, look at their body of work. - It's presumably more difficult (more hoops, more paper work, more laws to run afoul of, etc) when terminating an employee, vs. terminating a contract with a freelancer. So there's less of an idea that you need to make extra sure that you're getting the right person. - Freelancing is more of a B2B transaction than a job interview is. This seemingly puts you on more equal footing with the prospective client, than when you're running the obstacle course to 'prove' yourself for interviewers.