Oh I dunno, maybe if you ace the interview they may skip that. Certain senior engineers who are in huge demand don't need to do such things. They have folks

Oh I dunno, maybe if you ace the interview they may skip that. Certain senior engineers who are in huge demand don't need to do such things. They have folks lining up to hire them without asking them to do programming assignments. I doubt the filter is used 100% of the time.