If there were more jobs than people, then the interviewer would be entitled. However, there are more people than jobs, so it is the candidate who is the entitled one. I’m not saying I like this, I am simply stating a fact of scarcity.

If software engineers got paid to create a great hiring process, then the hiring process would be brilliant. However, this doesn’t make any money. Software engineers are paid to produce software and interview candidates only when they are needed. Maybe comp structures need to change to encourage more effort on the part of interviewers, but this doesn’t really produce any inherent value for the company so I can’t see this really catching on in a way that would produce much change.

And so what if your Github profile looks nice? In this guy’s case, it’s hard to say it’s not legitimate, but it’s all too easy for a candidate to get a skilled friend to give them some good code to put up on Github to make it look like they have experience. I remember talking to an interviewer who said he caught someone doing exactly this. He looked at their Github profile and asked them to talk about some of the work they’d done and they couldn’t explain why they’d written the code the way they had. When pressed, the candidate confessed they’d “cheated” by taking the code from a friend.