8 hour intense interview with no breaks just to be still told I’m not technical enough. I need a break from the interview process for the near future.
— Tae’lur Alexis (@TaelurAlexis) November 2, 2021
If they took eight hours to figure out a person was “not technical enough,” that’s on the interviewers and their complete failure. I hate that odious phrase but even within that framework, I can usually tell this in 2-3 questions. The roles I hire for are generally very technical, so I actually do have to evaluate for this to some extent*, but it doesn’t take more than five minutes.
*If you don’t understand networking pretty well, how DNS works, scripting, how to do pretty deep work in various OSes, and if you don’t have just a whole lot of general IT knowledge, you gonna have a bad time, and we’re too busy to train someone for 2-3 years to get them up to speed.