Ask HN: How to handle tech interviews?

I've been working full-time in the industry for 8+ years, I've got a Github profile with plenty of code samples (full projects, small projects, WIP projects, and snippets -- the whole shebang). I've got a resume that demonstrates that I've A) held jobs for significant periods of time, and B) progressed in my career (e.g. promotions). I've built entire apps for billion dollar companies from scratch. I've led teams of developers to release features and patch bugs. I've got this huge body of work and a laundry list of references that show that not only can I code, I can code well AND do all the other great stuff that employers want. I can talk at length and in great detail about any of those things.

Yet any time I talk to a new company, they put me on the phone with one of their engineers and ask me to prove that I can code by sorting a list or settling a loan or drawing an ASCII spiral, none of which are things that I have to write from scratch on a daily basis.

In short, I join the group that believes the current code exercise thing is broken.

My question is this: As a senior dev with major bodies of work and references a mile long, how do I tell the hiring manager "Thanks, but no thanks. Here's my Github profile, and I'd be happy to walk you through anything I've written" without them just throwing away my resume?

TL;DR: How do I convince potential employers to judge me based on my actual experience and code, rather than contrived coding exercises over Skype?

Thanks for reading.

Consider the person who has the final say in the process. Be it the CTO, CEO, founder, et al. Committing to hiring someone is a big deal. They are taking a risk. Ultimately, it's near impossible to be 100% certain of a persons suitability until they are actually performing in the role itself.

When they are coming to a decision as to whether or not they should hire Candidate X, one of the questions they need answered is "Is this person technically capable". They need something to eliminate that question and all too often they rely on their team asking you to reverse a string or something to that effect.

To answer your actual question, it's important to avoid sounding arrogant but I sincerely suggest you pose your argument as succinctly as you have in your post above and run a mile if you get any objections.

It's a Sellers Market for your services at the moment. You have more power in the interview process than you think.

You might try this word track directly with the Hiring Manager (avoid dealing with low-level HR Flunkies)-- I'm happy to demonstrate my skills and want to respect your time. May I suggest, that we first determine whether or not were a good match for each other. I 'd like to learn more about you and what you're working on. Take a consultative approach, have your own scorecard, and be ready to engage them in a solid business conversation. Think of this as the Discovery Phase.

Sufficiently impressed, the Hiring Manager may have power to forego the silly hoops of the code exercise. But generally speaking, the larger-the-company size the more formalized and mind-numbingly absurd the hiring process. And of course, they want to be 'fair' to the incumbent engineers who submitted to the code exercise when they interviewed.