Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control
WiredIn 2022, feeling burned out by the pandemic and a five-year sprint at a cloud storage company, Catherine decided it was time for a break. “I thought, maybe this is a sign.” It was a sign—of how the tech industry has made technical interviews more punishing, part of a wider pullback from Silicon Valley’s famously coder-friendly culture. After pandemic hiring sprees, tech companies reversed course in 2022 as interest rates began to rise, making sweeping layoffs and cuts to office perks. Long gone are the days of Google HR managers prompting candidates with clever brain teasers and Silicon Valley engineers easily landing jobs with six-figure starting salaries. One job seeker described an experience where an engineering manager said during an interview, “OK, we’re going to build a To Do List app right now,” a process that might normally take weeks.
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