My experience at DeveloperAuction shows that some companies actually view it as a point of pride that they reject 19 out of 20 Engineers they interview and that

My experience at DeveloperAuction shows that some companies actually view it as a point of pride that they reject 19 out of 20 Engineers they interview and that it's near-impossible to pass their rigours technical screening. It seems almost seems like they are trying to "trick" people into failing by asking obscure questions that have little relevance to the job at hand. Of course, what they fail to account for, is the incredibly cost of hundreds of hours spent talking to candidates & administering these silly challenges or the fact that Google's interview data proves that such such logic questions have little predictive value on future on-the-job performance. I was actually really impressed recently by Stripe's technical interview process - outlined on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-interview-process-like-at-Stripe http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-...