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Is it summer yet? The Last Technical Interview [Steve Yegge] – Super Developer Steve Yegge has always written interesting takes on software development and his current AI project Gas Town is fascinating. Here he recounts his history with engineer interview processes, often well-intended but always full of mistakes. “The reality is that talent evaluation, a corner of our industry that hasn’t changed much in five-ish decades, is embarrassingly busted. It just doesn’t work that well in practice.” Memorably: One day, the recruiters gave us a special round of packets to review. In these special packets, we were able to read the interviewer notes and candidate responses. All personal details were stripped out, and we were told it was a “calibration exercise.” We had to do our regular voting job with these special packets, and see how it went. I think we may have assumed they were from another site, since cross-site calibration was common. Our group did our job, and voted not to hire about…