> Simply by doing a number of practice and real interviews you will be much better at interviewing. You as a programmer are probably not that fundamentally bett

> Simply by doing a number of practice and real interviews you will be much better at interviewing. You as a programmer are probably not that fundamentally better, but you the interviewer are. That is true, but I see that as a serious weakness in programming interviews rather than a feature. If you can, or even need, to train yourself in things that have no bearing on the job you are being hired for, the interview is flawed. I understand that, to some degree, this is unavoidable. It seems like there is a drive to structure interviews like programming competitions or Jeopardy. However, the latter two are games; an interview should be a well-constructed test, not a game. I do think a large number of non-US people participate in these competitions because of their relationship to current hiring practices.