Let me lay it out clearly: I asserted that I can, and have, inflated my abilities to people who have technical know how. This was in response to you stating that "I’m sorry but you cannot do what you are claiming."

So to be clear, at this point, one of two things is true:

1. You are wrong

2. I am a liar

To you, it is clear that point 2 is the true one. To most readers, this is not as obvious. Once you have decided that (2) is true and I am a liar, nothing I say can or will convince you otherwise. But you haven't decided that based on anything factual. In fact, (1) is true here. I am not lying. I can, and have, done the things I claim to have done in this case.

I'm using this to demonstrate that your ideas about such a conversational interview don't work, by pointing out that in the conversational interview that we are having right now, you've decided, based on a preconception, that what I say cannot be true! I could be the world's most successful conman, but because you're preconceptions lead you to believe that your preferred interview process is effective and is less biased than your non-preferred one, you won't accept evidence to the contrary.

>I see no such proof at all, and the cheeky rhetoric just makes me feel more entrenched that you are bullshitting hugely in this thread.

Right, and my point is you're wrong and unwilling to accept that. And that is a demonstration of you not being able to effectively figure out whether or not someone is bullshitting from a conversation with them. You've decided that I'm bullshitting because the alternative would require you to do a lot of introspection about how and why you analyze candidates the way you do. So it's easier to just say "you're bullshitting" and then not put in the effort. And that's certainly your prerogative, but its not at all a good look for your interviewing capabilities.

That you're so prone to cognitive biases that you're willing to completely write off someone's experience because it forces you to rethink something you hold dear is not a selling point of the process you espouse. It demonstrates, like I've said, that the process is prone to cognitive bias and is therefore decidedly not objective.

That is, there are two possibilities:

1. You are wrong, and you're refusal to accept that is coloring your perceptions of our interactions in such a way that you are not able to be objective about my experiences and abilities, as I claim.

2. I'm completely making everything I've said up and haven't ever been able to inflate my abilities to anyone. Your person-analytical skills are infallible and you've caught me.

I subscribe to (1), you continue to wrongly believe (2). This is expected, its why your process isn't as objective as you claim.

>It doesn’t matter how your company is structured, it doesn’t matter how the work was divided up. Your job is to know about the stakeholder problem you are solving, at a deep level, and when you represent your work to other people and you fail to offer technical depth about the trade-offs needed to solve stakeholder problems, that’s a clear mark against you as a candidate.

This is, again, your opinion of how engineering should be done. Not every engineer has the opportunity to work in a workplace where that's how things work. Are you going to write off everyone whose experience has been in a PM led environment because they haven't had the opportunity to develop using the process you prefer? If so that's again your prerogative, but you're probably filtering out a bunch of good engineers.