I miss job interviews (from both sides!) where a few people read the candidates' resumes, asked them deep and intelligent questions about what they had worked on in the past, and then made a hiring decision, without further quizzes, take-home projects, or probationary work-to-hire contracts.
All my recent job interviews have been like that. Although they've all been for software and data analysis jobs at non-software engineering firms. In my experience companies used to interviewing not-software engineers have much more sane interviewing practices since they know that a chemical or structural engineer with 10 years of experience won't put up with that sort of thing.
I agree. My first interviews were like "You have no clue about C but you are good at FORTRAN and you are smart. No problem. You'll pick it up in a second. Read this book before you start.".
