I just turned down an offer after a technical interview. Just after my tech call, I call the hiring manager and said I didn't want to move forward.
Technical interviews aren't the problem, is when interviewers already have an answer they want, and if anything strays from it, they just flat out refuse the answer. Sure datastructure X maybe better when getting to a million items, but for most use cases, Y is valid, and when Y is a problem, I can easily google an alternative, but nooooooo, it has to be X from the start because or A B or C.
I like being chalenged in a interview, talk about various topics, but if for every question you have, you have one and one answer only, and any other that may fit but isn't on your spreadsheet is wrong, then seriously, F U.
Fortunately also talked with other companies that were more sane, but this 'My way or the highway' from pseudo engineers is what is wrong with hiring in tech.
Technical interviews aren't the problem, is when interviewers already have an answer they want, and if anything strays from it, they just flat out refuse the answer. Sure datastructure X maybe better when getting to a million items, but for most use cases, Y is valid, and when Y is a problem, I can easily google an alternative, but nooooooo, it has to be X from the start because or A B or C.
I like being chalenged in a interview, talk about various topics, but if for every question you have, you have one and one answer only, and any other that may fit but isn't on your spreadsheet is wrong, then seriously, F U.
Fortunately also talked with other companies that were more sane, but this 'My way or the highway' from pseudo engineers is what is wrong with hiring in tech.