I’m curious if this is an experience most people agree with. In my experience, by the time I get an interview at all I’ve already passed the key filters, and usually find the actual interview(s) fairly straightforward. Otherwise companies assume I’m overqualified or decide I fail to tick some unimportant box and I never make it to the “interact with a human” stage.
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’m curious if this is an experience most people agree with. In my experience, by the time I get an interview at all I’ve already passed the key filters, and usually find the actual interview(s) fairly straightforward. Otherwise companies assume I’m overqualified or decide I fail to tick some unimportant box and I never make it to the “interact with a human” stage.
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.