If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

Try reading for comprehension. The parent said, "You lucking out in which country you’re born in..."

You were lucky in that YOU were born in the US. Your parents could have lived in India. Or China. Or Chad. Or the Ukraine. Just so happens they lived in the US and, as a lucky consequence, you were born in the US.

But unless you're Native American your ancestors weren't born here. They were immigrants too. America is a huge multi-cultural melting pot spanning generations. 97% of the population are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.

Getting tired of the folk that move in and then say, "Hey, I've got mine. Now it's time to close the door on everyone else."

For the first three questions -

They're ones I've asked before.

They are questions that have gotten some coherent response from about five out of six people, but generally only get a good, clear, robust response from one out of six people.

Usually they touch on different areas - I don't ask three questions about function parameters, I ask about very different topics, as theoretically they may be weak on one area and strong on another (although usually people have the same level of strength over all areas in my experience).

I don't really worry about asking the same questions to each candidate, since if they hit the ones I always ask out of the park but then struggle on ones I only sometimes, or rarely, or never ask, I would find that odd.

I might adopt questions to what they have on their resume, but generally it takes a while to adapt to a newer question. If we start using a new language more and an old language less, I probably will adapt questions to the new language and so on.

> Interviewing shouldn’t require such thick skin

Says who? If it was easy to get a high-paying job, everyone would just apply.

It's up to the person with money to decide on the kind of people they want to pay lots of money to, and what the testing methodology is (within the bounds of the law, of course).

I've played that game for over 20 years, and I'm completely immune to rejection. Most of the time you don't even get rejected, there's just silence. It used to bother me, maybe the first couple of years, but not anymore. I'd go to 50 onsite interviews and get maybe 2 offers, even though I'd solve most of their challenges correctly.

> America is a huge multi-cultural melting pot spanning generations. 97% of the population are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants.

Only European immigrants for hundreds of years until 1965 Hart Cellar. Coincidentally a few years later:

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

> Getting tired of the folk that move in and then say, "Hey, I've got mine. Now it's time to close the door on everyone else."

You're tired!!!?

I'm sick and tired of Western countries being responsible for Eastern countries billions of children! Stop having children! Maybe your country might actually be livable and not be something you want to run away from!

Notice that almost all of the countries that are desirable to immigrate to have a native population with a declining birth rate.

Also no one's closing any doors. any country can create their own prosperous economy? why not do that? Are they incapable of creating their own prosperous economy? It's closing the door because they're incapable of being successful on their own?

Instead Western countries get a billion people trying to immigrate and make the cost of labor dirt cheap.

It's pretty sad situation because the desirable countries are being turned into the rest of the world.

I had the same experience. I've bombed a lot of CS interviews - a lot more than I've done well on, hah! I'm a couple classes away from a Master's in CS and would still have to study my butt off to be successful in a whiteboard interview. The first few rejections hurt a little, but once I started taking the interviews for what they were it all became a big joke to me. And the recruiter process may be even worse than the interviews. At this point I'm of the opinion that I'm not gonna waste one more minute on Leetcode or any "kata" a recruiter sends me. I've got much better things to do with my time.

My current position was basically just a conversation for an hour. Best interview ever... Went in thinking I was gonna have to do the whiteboard thing and they never asked me one question about any kind of algorithm. Been on the team several years now and it's the best position I've ever had.

I'd probably need something like a 50 to 75% salary bump to consider leaving, and I would flat out refuse any whiteboard interviews. I always count myself blessed that I'm in the position where I can be selective. If I was desperate, I'd have to compete for them like everyone else.