January 2026

The coding interview by Jay Gengelbach

My fear is that the reaction will be to stop leaning on interviewing. The flawed assessment mechanism will fall back to even-more-flawed reputation networks: “who you know, not what you know.”

Comment by By Jochen Mader: The whole FAANG interview process was aimed at giving the interviewers a sense of superiority. I coached several people through them and sat to the side during the phone calls with your weird riddles and random big O questions.