Comment by seiji

Interviews break most people's intellectual context. Talky/show-me interviews are designed around interviewing MBA "how well can you present yourself" roles, but it completely fails to evaluate a technical person.

Doing a blind and "surprise me with a clever (or traditional) algorithm" whiteboard interview is a teaching skill, not a coding competency. You have to illustrate, explain, make your self vulnerable while understanding the problem, and work in front of someone while being judged confrontationally. It's not sane. (and glob help you if you don't wrap your entire brain around the problem in the first 5 seconds, then you're clearly subpar and are worth less than dirt even with your 15 years of experience shipping products to millions of users.)

Google is happy to have 1,000 nerd projects and only one thing that makes money. As long as they continue to interview smart people on technicalities instead of well-roundness and ability to actually contribute or move the company forward, they have no need to fix their insultingly irrelevant interview process.