Recently I did some interviews for companies that call themselves "human focused", but in the time they need to show their humanity and respect they just forget it.

I do understand that in this market we have a lot of dev that are "underqualified" but we too have a lot of jobs that are "overspecified", so we both have problems.

When a company ask a developer to make a live code in 30 minutes of unexpected problem, as a developer you have 90% of chance to fail, not because you can't do what they asking you, but because of the external enviroment, like, engineers watching you, anxiety, impostor sydrom, and much more.

• Interviwer: Hi, please share your screen... So... this is the challenge, we expect you finish in 30 minutes, you cans start when you're ready.

Developer starts working and see himself being anayzed by two engineers seeing each keystroke he makes, he wants the job, the anxiety starts, the code don't run, the mind get blank and... he fail.

• Interviwer: Okay, I think we can stop here. I think you are not qualified for what we want, we expect someone fluent on this, and you're not prepared, maybe in the future. Good Luck, bye.

Now I ask you, fellow devs... Is this fair? Your experience and skills just being throw on trash by a company, just because you can't acomplish something in a stressfull enviroment in 30 minutes? Something that in a daily work situation you could have done it without problems. I find it at least disrespectful.

If you are a tech recruiter, I'll tell you what could be a better (and the right) way of doing an interview.

• Put the Tech Lead or engineer to talk with the candidate, and ask questions about his experiences, it will give you about 50% you need to know.

• Ask him to show you some project that he's proud of, and ask questions based on it. "The candidate will love tell you about it".

• Send home-tests AWAYS based on the experience that the role REALLY needs or based on the candidate experience with at least 2 days to finish. (not a computer science algorithm to calculate the air volume of earth).

• Finally, be human. Humans have depression, anxiety, stressful days, humans forget things, humans fail. These types of stressful hiring process can never judge the talent and experience of a professional.

My name is Jean, I'm a senior full-stack developer. I code, I manage, I design, I create, I help the team, but... I'm not perfect! I fail, I still have so much to learn, and... I'M NOT A ROBOT. If your company need a "thing", that code anything besides any human and external enviroment problems in less than 30 minutes, make a bot yourself, or hire me to make it for you.