TECH INTERVIEWS ARE COLLAPSING

Tech interviews are collapsing. In 2026, tech interviews are falling apart. Let me give you an example. Someone in my comments mentioned that in an interview, they were asked about a time that they broke prod. And the candidate happened to never broke prod. They just never broke prod. It was something that never happened in their career. It happens to a lot of us, right? I've broken prod many times. But this person just didn't break prod. So they got rejected. They got rejected because they didn't have a response to the behavioral questions. Part of which was that question. And almost think, we have to leet code to get a job. System design. But on top of that, we now have to break prod. Great representation of just how weird the tech interview stage is nowadays. We don't really prepare for interviews. I mean, we know we have to leet code. We know we have to system design. But we can get thrown a project work. We can get thrown random behavioral questions. And for those that have interviewed for fang, you know all about the behavioral questions. About the smart process in Amazon where you literally have to answer your behavioral questions in a structured way. I never liked the idea of having a structured interview process. I think as long as a candidate is passionate, bro, and actually wants to grind, and knows a little bit about tech, they should get the job. It's to the point in 2026 where these interviews don't even make sense to me. It used to be all about memorization, which really didn't make sense to me. But now it's just every single company is doing something different. I have no idea someone kind of wish the interviews were standardized like most other industries. All you do is just talk about yourself. You answer basic human questions because people, software engineers are humans too. We have feelings, we have ambitions, we wanna build cool things. But you're not letting us do that because you're throwing leet code, design, are questions that are not relevant to the everyday software engineer. It's killing us. It's genuinely making us depressed. When you're throwing us curveball after curveball, you're making it hard for the next generation of software engineers to continue our legacy. I'm really nervous all the we've built is going to collapse because the next generation won't carry forward.