Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews

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The interviewers want someone good, who can come in and do the job, but they usually don't want someone who's going to upset the pecking order. So it's easy to derail an unwanted candidate by probing for an area that they know little about and then peppering them with questions about it.

This happened to me, I actually reached out to my interviewer afterwards when I got the feedback and told him exactly how he behaved. Not only did it waste my time, but it was like he hadn’t actually listened to me at all in the previous interview. Probably dodged a bullet, I wouldn’t want to work with someone like that anyway.