You are offended when your job offer is contingent on how well you interview, not how well you do real work?

I am offended when a prospect declines a job offer or judged or culture based on how well I interview, not how well I do real work.

However, it's a hot market. For every company that sucks at interviews, there's a company that's good at it. Why put up with it? Why waste hours?

Once upon a time, I was interviewing at two companies. The first, was a great interview..the seasoned and experienced found/CEO got me excited and interested and really made me feel that they were equally excited and interested in having me on board. They asked smart questions, they had obviously spent time reading my blog and looking at my public profile.

At the other company, it was painful...for both of us. I felt..like a chore that had to be done...going through a checklist of increasingly irrelevant questions. You could challenge the question, but the answer was "we want to see how you work through problems"....which is silly...are you so lazy that you can't come up with relevant questions that do that? Plenty of other people have.

My point is that, like everything else, some companies are clearly 10x better at interviewing/hiring than others. And, again like everything else, the shitty companies/interviewers have no clue how shitty they are.

Surely that might say something about the individuals and companies as a whole? So, again, why put up with it?

Job candidates should be turning down companies as often as companies should be declining to make offers.

If you're not ready to walk away, then you're desperate and you're going to end up in a crappy job.

But at the same time no way did it appear to me that the interviewer was not looking for passion in me. The questions that were asked from me probed whether I had the ability to respond to tricky problems, the ability to understand the intricacy of the problem and ability to respond.

At the same time the interviewer also tried to gauge my general skills, whether I would be able to contribute in a project or not. So I feel everybody has their own method of hiring. Particularly college graduates may not have github accounts to show that they have contributed to different projects. Sometimes I feel it is the only way to judge freshers in the sense they may not have a lot of projects to show, but they do have what it takes.

Companies should search for developers that can do both.

However I see no problem in a post/discussion/website focusing on a part of the interview process such as coding/algorithmic questions.

www.githire.com, www.hackruiter.com are trying to solve this problem.

I hope to see more such startups in time to come!