I agree feverishly with you post. I've been a dev for 10 years and worked in Sydney, London, New York & San Francisco. What I noticed is that San Francisco has

I agree feverishly with you post. I've been a dev for 10 years and worked in Sydney, London, New York & San Francisco. What I noticed is that San Francisco has a very different "technical" interview approach that is very CS focused. I studied a CS degree (7 years ago) and think it's stupid that I have to dig into knowledge that I have not needed professionally over my whole career. I've built successful startups, coded mamoth apps used by millions of people, but failed interviews at companies like Yammer. I wrote a post about how I conduct technical interviews for my company airpair. http://hackerpreneurialism.com/post/43661666180/how-i-conduct-technical-interviews http://hackerpreneurialism.com/post/43661666180/how-i-conduc... Pair Programming is KEY. Also, side plug we've been getting lots of business both around preparing for interviews and helping to interview candidates when you don't have in-house knowledge to vet skills you don't have. Here are some examples: http://airpa.ir/1d5sqR6 http://airpa.ir/1d5sqR6 (Need help reviewing candidates code) http://airpa.ir/1dteU8H http://airpa.ir/1dteU8H (Need help interviewing an iOS candiate) http://airpa.ir/173ily2 http://airpa.ir/173ily2 (Needed help preparing for JavaScript interview)