With all the overt and hidden biases that us flawed humans live with daily, the idea that you will be able to pick really skilled devs consistently is laughable unless your doing some sort of blind interviews like symphony orchestras do nowadays.
It's so blatantly obvious that interviewers are basically trying to hire themselves, and will almost always select candidates whom they share the most personality traits with.
Also, I see the hiring process as similar to wanting to be a politician ie anyone who really wants to be one and is just really good at it should never be given the job.
The people who impress you the most almost surely have simply put a ton more effort into gaming the process with long leetcode sessions, live interview practices, and other bullshit tricks to convince you that they are the best person to hire.
With so much as stake, why wouldn't young devs spend tons of time working on interviewing skills and not really giving a damn about developing the real skills needed to be a goto resource at Big Software?
It's very much like taking steroids in professional sports...well no shit your taking PEDs when your career paths are either making generational wealth fucking with a ball or working selling Jordans at the local shoe store.
It's so blatantly obvious that interviewers are basically trying to hire themselves, and will almost always select candidates whom they share the most personality traits with.
Also, I see the hiring process as similar to wanting to be a politician ie anyone who really wants to be one and is just really good at it should never be given the job.
The people who impress you the most almost surely have simply put a ton more effort into gaming the process with long leetcode sessions, live interview practices, and other bullshit tricks to convince you that they are the best person to hire.
With so much as stake, why wouldn't young devs spend tons of time working on interviewing skills and not really giving a damn about developing the real skills needed to be a goto resource at Big Software?
It's very much like taking steroids in professional sports...well no shit your taking PEDs when your career paths are either making generational wealth fucking with a ball or working selling Jordans at the local shoe store.