[kevinarpe]

"[T]hey measure peak performance, rather than sustained performance."

I never saw it expressed so succinctly. Excellent!

It captures well the frustration around tech interviews. You might be a very competent worker (sustained performance), but fail miserably during interviews (peak performance). Ideally, you could show a body of work during your interview, but this isn't possible with most commercial software companies. If you are lucky to work on open source for your job, it is easy to show your work.

To manufacture a public body of work for myself, I built two open source projects and published them on GitHub. (Please do not read that as advice!) I can share and discuss them during interviews.