Tech Interviewing is so broken.
My first dry run at this topic clocked in at 73 minutes, so it's getting chopped into several videos.

This video talks about how interviewing is broken, and some of the history about how we got here, why companies KEEP interviewing like we do even though they should know better, and a bit of job hunting advice - to go along with the last jobs video I made at    • Software Engineers REAL problem with ...  

Remember - no politics in the comments, or I'll delete them.

00:00 Intro
00:18 I am not trying to sell you anything related to this video
02:00 Advice for job seekers on how not to get ripped off
03:30 Book recommendation
04:29 What I do spend money on in between jobs
05:38 My Amazon Interviewing experience
10:04 My history/experience with 35 years of professional interviewing
12:43 My opinion on the effectiveness of companies that use LeetCode interviews
14:36 Live whiteboard coding and take home tests have roughly the same effectiveness
15:24 How did we get here?
20:32 Why do companies keep doing this?
25:52 Consequences for companies of this poor interview process
28:43 Somewhat off-topic rant I couldn't bring myself to cut out
29:47 Choices while job hunting
30:36 Signoff

Links from the video:

#Book about Microsoft's STUPID old hiring methods that started this whole nightmare:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Would-Move...

Origins of "SuperStar Candidate" obsessions, as well as Stack Overflow:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/1...
https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-o...

Note: I do not believe in the concept of a Super Star candidate. Subscribe and stay tuned for my upcoming video, tentatively titled "The Myth of the 10x Developer"

This article from 2007 was SO dumb, but everyone teated it like Gospel.
https://web.archive.org/web/200804301...

Interviews do no correlate with job performance, says GOOGLE, in 2013:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/bu... ("what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship. It’s a complete random mess")

The book I would actually recommend for job seekers (you can probably find it used):
https://parachutebook.com/