What Should I Do if I'm Screened?

There's a tension between skills that can be mentioned in an interview and the skill that matters as a programmer, solving big projects over a long period of time. Big companies don't care at all where you're raised. Smaller companies do show us light preference to local candidates. And so I think in the end, we're left with a thing, kind of like the famous democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other options. It's fundamentally inaccurate, but you still have to do it.