Take technical interviewing head on. You can't have fear and worries run your life. Unless you have a strong network, (or a personal brand) and people who have

Take technical interviewing head on. You can't have fear and worries run your life. Unless you have a strong network, (or a personal brand) and people who have worked with your prior recommending you, it's unlikely that you will be able to escape some sort of technical screen early in your career. Especially if you are in the valley (are you?) Some other ways to mitigate the screen that you could try, are: 1. Giving talks on a certain topic you are passionate about and can do well. 2. Writing and maintaining a blog on those same topics. Even then, it's unlikely that you will be able to totally bypass a technical screen for a developer role at a company worth working for (simply because they are getting a lot of applications and hence they just need a decent way of filtering candidates). In the long run, it's better to take technical interviewing by the horns. Learn it, practice is, focus on it, and get it over with. There are books, there are websites, there are friends, and then there are classroom courses (Disclaimer: I run InterviewKickstart.com, which is a classroom course).