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But the people who'd need that the most are the ones furthest out of school.

I shudder at the thought of ever having to do another programming interview. Well, alternately shudder and laugh. What a joke!

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It's my belief that the best experienced programmers don't have to go through programming interviews. Even if you don't actively make an effort to network, you have a network of people who know you're good enough to outright hire without the whole rigmarole.

Companies who aren't finding people like this are missing out on many of the best.

> Even if you don't actively make an effort to network, you have a network of people who know you're good enough to outright hire without the whole rigmarole.

Not sure why you think this is the case. It is really easy to end up with a worthless network (I managed), and many larger companies insist on forcing every applicant through the HR hiring funnel for compliance reasons.

It's been my whole career. Yeah, I've had to go in and do the grip'n'grin interview and talk to people for a couple hours to make sure I'm not a martian or something. But every job has always come about because someone at the company either knew I was competent (from working with me in the past) or asked someone I knew who told them I was.

I've never had a job that involved whiteboarding or any sort of coding test.

Yes, but why do you think your experience generalizes to anyone else?

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