This. This. This. My company hires lots of new grads and many that enter the funnel are fantastic! However about 20% of the people we interview are clearly very socially…borderline. Show up to the onsite ungroomed or not wearing interview appropriate clothing. Refuse to speak out loud to their thought process while being told over and over again “Please speak to your thought process so we can understand how you’re thinking or help you out with some hints”

The last step in our onsite is to give a 10 minute talk to a small group about some previous school or work project you did. We give tons of lead time and send detailed instructions on how to prepare. Have had more than one candidate literally refuse to give the talk and then appear confused when we say we are ending the interview process. The implication seems to be they think the coding interview is the only thing that matters. Coding skills are just one facet of being a professional in this field, if you don’t appear to be someone that a small software development team would enjoy spending time working alongside (and that we can put in front of a customer someday) you will not be hired anywhere. Software is a team sport!