People who conduct technical interview, how common it is for you to see people bombed the interview??

Bombed as in awful? Or awesome?

@asgs awful. like totally blank and cannot answer the question

@asgs

You mean this post is not about terrorists?

@aryzor

I had a tooth infection at my last technical interview. My head was blank, it was fun.

it is kind of 50-50 in my experience. Most are able to talk a few things about the stuff they put in their CV. Around half of the candidates can answer basic questions without any lack of clarity. Around 20% can go beyond and probably less than 5% look fully qualified for the job opening

lmao every single time. my problem is they're either so fucking stupid that my cat will probably do better, or so fucking smart that they're obviously overqualified af. Shakespeares and Newtons of software engineering make bad full stack devs. To be involved and motivated, they should be writing compilers and operating systems.

Unless you know exactly what to say during each interview and you know its structure and expectations, do's and don't, you are realistically likely to fail between 500 and 1500 interviews.

I've interviewed a dozen people in my life. I'd say 6 bombed it, 4 were meh, and 2 were capable of basic tasks

I flopped many interviews because I was controlling my anger to not smack the interviewer in the back of the head and force them to be smarter and actually THINK before they ask a problematic question. Some also because I noticed there was no way I'd work with them due to their red flags but I'm too polite to walk out with my middle fingers raised.

Welp I'm pretty bad at interviews myself so I tend to be pretty lax.

- can they reason through an problem? even if they land on the wrong answer them being able to activate neurons is a good sign

- Can they somewhat communicate?

- Are they sociable enough where I don't have to drag em to HR

- are they eager/willing to learn?

- Is there ego not an massive balloon.

Unless we are really looking for an specific skillset in a time crunch I'm already willing to entertain someone who checks off above. Tech stacks fade and go, while there are plenty of kernels of truth that stay I'd rather hire someone unskilled but with their mind and heart in the right place, as long as they are willing to learn.

Now granted most of my interviews were with interns, juniors and mediors, so that kind of skews what you can expect.