I work in software engineering and historically have approximately a 10% conversion rate from interviewing to getting a job offer. Even if I truly believed the job was “too easy” I’d rather take it and keep looking, since it might be months before I get another offer. Anything else is just sour grapes.
I’ve also done a little bit of hiring at my current job and the top things I was looking for were agency and basic technical competency, with a strong bonus if you knew how to use agentic AI. Resumes were a surprisingly weak signal (one guy I interviewed was completely incapable, another was ~fine but sexist and stupid enough to display it while being interviewed by a woman, etc). The actual assignment I gave wasn’t that hard and was mostly meant to be just difficult enough for me to see how they dealt with realistic open ended objectives.
I work in software engineering and historically have approximately a 10% conversion rate from interviewing to getting a job offer. Even if I truly believed the job was “too easy” I’d rather take it and keep looking, since it might be months before I get another offer. Anything else is just sour grapes.
I’ve also done a little bit of hiring at my current job and the top things I was looking for were agency and basic technical competency, with a strong bonus if you knew how to use agentic AI. Resumes were a surprisingly weak signal (one guy I interviewed was completely incapable, another was ~fine but sexist and stupid enough to display it while being interviewed by a woman, etc). The actual assignment I gave wasn’t that hard and was mostly meant to be just difficult enough for me to see how they dealt with realistic open ended objectives.