Everyone's talking like they deserve the job and it's just the format that's causing anxiety, but in reality upwards of 90% of applicants don't measure up.
In their defence, anxiety does cause some applicants to fail. But the vast majority of applicants who apply to any technical role can’t really program. It’s obvious in these comment threads that lots of folks have never sat on the other side of an interview room.
Performance anxiety is real though. One mark of a good interviewer is how well they can get a candidate to relax and perform at their best. I’ve done over 400 interviews and I still worry I don’t quite have that skill down.
