That’s a solid point and one that’s not lost on me. The reality is though, that you see a clear divide in his interview outcomes. Most of the corporations got lumped together with Google, and for some reason I thought he had mentioned Bloomberg in there. Both of which have strict requirements and major computational demands both on front and back end. Bottom line they need engineers. The problems do tend to be very different given context of the work for front end engineers, but the algorithms don’t change. I will point out as well that he did quite well in the interviews that were clearly stated as front end developer jobs, just not well enough to get the job over whoever he was competing against. Should the industry give more feedback? Yes. However lawsuits are a thing, and it’s in their interest to not potentially say something to you that you might twist into a discrimination case. It happens unfortunately. I didn’t mean to discredit his experience. It’s valid and the process sucks. We definitely need to continue working toward being better, but to blame an industry for your failure to land a job sounds like you need more practice to be marketable. Doubly so if you are going to apply for certain companies that are notorious for hiring engineers generally, then complain that they expect you to know your algorithms down cold. I too have a CS degree and unlike the author I study my algorithms book pretty regularly because the work I do demands it. That’s what I was getting at, is that if you are going to complain that algorithms are so important, but can’t reason your way through a relatively simple problem, then he should crack open a book and do some practice.