HR interactions/screens, Phone screen, The be-all-and-end-all so-called technical interview by relatively inexperienced, megalomaniacal individuals, like many companies now mistaking themselves for Google, aping their styles and even questions.
These days, interviewers want to appear smart, and steal Q&A from various puzzle books, asking questions that they could not themselves answer.
Who you know trumps!
Generic questions unrelated to skills, talents, and abilities.
They would not know talent if it slapped them across the face!
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Wayfair Senior Engineer role.
Wayfair's interview process for their Senior Engineer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Wayfair's Senior Engineer interview process.