Every specialization grants some immunity for weaker social skills. Everyone seems to know they need cybersecurity and database skills. Everyone also needs accessibility, networking, disaster recovery and test automation. Many also know that.

That said, interviews suck for everyone. I try to look at every interview as a gift I’m giving. Maybe my answers can help them, even if they can’t hire me.

If they ask a lot of stupid useless fizzbuzz, then framing the time as a gift helps me pity them instead of feeling angry. I already gave them my time, they just wasted it. Their foolishness doesn’t reduce the worthiness of my choice to try to help them.