my experience with the interview process is that they just will ask high level questions and dont even test your skills or what it will be like for you to work together and communicate with the team, so you end up waste many hours setting up interviews, speaking with people, restating everything on your resume, without doing any actual coding or learning anything. Speaking of which how can companies actually hire developers to perform a certain job yet they dont even bother to test those job skills?
in similar vein:
https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/should-i-avoid-a-position-that-doesnt-give-a-coding-test/178515/4
(I understand networking and trying to sell yourself is important, I’m trying to work on these soft skills… but its not easy, I just want to speak about code). Its almost like the recruiters and managers dont care about their clients and only want to fill a position and are just going off your likeability and your confidence.
The reason im worried about jobs that are hiring that dont actually test your skills is I had a bad experience at my last job that also had a similar hiring processs, perhaps I am being very cautious and maybe overthinking these things…but this sort of thing makes me nervous, even if it is a known and respected company, I start to have doubts about myself and end up messing up my potential opportunities (do they really even know what they are doing and what they are looking for? maybe they will have unrealistic expectations? how is it possible for them to hire just based of of this? how can they know im qualified if im being interviewed by people who dont code or write any code themselves? etc… ) for example this recuriter from a respected regional company that ended up scheduling me for an interview with hiring manager before adressing my concerns:
FYI, their ecommerce website is horribly slow and a terrible user experience, I cant understand how such a big company has such a horrendous website (They must be spending a fortune on ads and marketing). I guess thats why they had wanted it redone (they actually ended up cancelling the interview last minute. But I know they just did this because of my lack of confidence messed it up)