Ask HN: What are interviews like in non-software engineering professions?

I am a chemical engineer currently working in a consulting niche (air emissions control and regional air quality management). My interviews have very consistently been designed to test my writing and public speaking skills, which are admittedly crucial in my job, rather than specific engineering knowledge. At this point, my resume contains reasonably strong evidence that I possess such knowledge, but that wasn't the case when I was starting out and the interviews weren't really any different. The closest things to technical questions I can remember being asked are of the form: "Imagine a piece of equipment you are responsible for isn't working. What are some steps you would take to identify and solve the problem?"

I have also occasionally interviewed for non-SWE positions at tech companies (usually data scientist or regulatory compliance positions, both of which are closely related to my current field), and I have found the interviews to be similarly light on technical material, but with much less emphasis on speaking and writing skills.

Not having been through any SWE interviews myself, that's about as much as I can say in comparison. My loose impression is that SWE interviews are relatively heavy on logic puzzles and mini coding problems, but that's all I know. I am happy to answer more specific questions about my experience, of course.

Let's do a thought experiment. If Terry posts random words that speak, and he does this all day, and you are a doctor, what do you think? You just ignore it because you have no idea and assume must be nothing.

In fact, it is God talks and obviously Terry will tell you to go to hell, you nigger monkey.

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A young rocketry startup once offered to an applicant a challenge to show skills with hardware. This kit - https://www.sainsmart.com/sainsmart-balancing-robot-kit-v2.h... - was required to assemble and in general to make working in a week and bring back the results. The kit was given by the company.

I've often wondered if non-SWP interviews involve homework... I hate this aspect of interviewing for positions.

Less stupid technical questions, because there are much less cheaters and you can trust the given educational background.

I worked as architect, mech. engineer and various other engineering sectors. There are some technical questions of course but nothing like whiteboarding binary search or tree traversal.

Reading at the comments, it tells me how easy, fast and cheap it would be for a machine to crack a software job interview with TODAY's technology. It tells me software dev jobs are the first inline when AI will take over.