Interesting follow up to our blog post! This goes into a lot more details about why startups might prefer product-focused people, and larger companies might need technical people.

The discovery of product motivation in interviews is limited to “are you interested in this product?” [...] Technical interviews discover technical programmers, even if YC startups prefer product programmers.

Interesting point. Could the explanation be that larger companies (with more demand for technical programmers) define interviewing culture, and skew all interviews in this direction?

If you have more microservices than users, you may not have an engineering problem, but you definitely have a product problem.

Ha. Great quote.