They are looking for reasons to reject candidates. I interviewed for a senior developer position. I answered every question thrown at me. Javascript libraries, C#, SQL, I got it all correct. Then the interviewer asked me about specifics in database indexing. I told him that I wasn't familiar with that concept because our database administrator usually handled that task. That is the point where he told me that I was unqualified and this interview is over. Why are they rejecting perfectly qualified candidates? I would guess either - They are looking for an excuse to hire a much cheaper overseas candidate - The person interviewing is the person's whose job is going to be eliminated - Or maybe they just have completely unrealistic expectations Oh, by the way, this interview was 2 years ago and the position is still listed as open on linkedin.

One of my favorite interviews, good questions (hard but not stupid, things like: what was the most difficult bug you ever fixed) A well rounded technical test, challenging but the questions where things that anyone who calls themselves a C++ engineer (and most engineers in general) should know. Also everyone involved (I got passed around a little) was very nice and very much "not in interviewer mode" by which, they were open and relaxed and I felt like I would enjoy working with these people because I could picture them being like this during a brew etc. I went through a 3rd party recruiter initially and he was excellent, sadly I only remember his first name "Alex".