Well, technical interview questions are why I've given up on pursuing a programming career path and I was shocked that employers were still giving out technical interview questions for a product manager role, it didn't matter if I was a software dev years ago. Rote method still trumps real world experience building real commercial software that people will pay you for according to a lot of interviewers....and I've heard about few managers hiring neophiles based on their 'algorithmic' performance on a whiteboard build shit on Node.js, panic when it's far more work necessary and pull the plug on their CMS (reinventing wheels) because PHP is 'slow'...what in the fuck did I just hear you want to rebuild a static CMS website in Node.js because you think it's going to give you wings?

well at least that has been my experience so far trying to get a job and I'm coming up dry every time. I technically have no work experience because I've been holed up writing a big data mining SaaS tool for a few years and since I was self employed it seems to mean jack all for credentials.

I don't know I'm in a bit of a jam. Starting a complex SaaS product from scratch that thousands of people have used is simply useless against a fucking sorting algorithm that will be used heavily on the actual product.

Like I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world sometimes...I have all this experience and knowledge in this one area, building shit and getting people to pay for it, and it's going to waste as I'm half heartedly applying for jobs I know I will not be able to pass the second round of interviews when the technical algorithm questions begin....I'm sure if I wanted to learn more about the different variety of sorting algorithm I would've fucking consulted stackoverflow already....come on man I just wanna solve real world problems with real world product experience not write fucking code on a whiteboard. I'd be happy to architect out an entire stack powering your product in to the future on a white board but fuck man if you want help on your sorting algorithm just google stackoverflow.

my 2 cents.