This, and more, is where reality lies. The other day there was a thread about the Google CTO test. I thought the entire thing was nothing less than ridiculous

This, and more, is where reality lies. The other day there was a thread about the Google CTO test. I thought the entire thing was nothing less than ridiculous. I've hired many engineers and management over time. I don't care about anything someone can solve by having two bookcases full of relevant books by their desk. I care about how the person things and how they solve problems they never had to face before. None of the technologies I've worked with during the last 20 years existed when I was in school. FPGA's, for example, required a deep dive into a new universe of hardware design. The foundation helped, of course, but nobody would have hired me at the start of my first FPGA project, yet I developed technology for my own business that resulted in millions of dollars in sales. The case is similar for management. I've been CTO/VP a couple of times before launching my own businesses. Didn't know what I was doing. I thought it was a technical job. Eventually I would joke that I had more business books by my bedside than engineering books anywhere in the house. A person who is good at problem solving can learn and become good at anything. Be it CTO or developing the next ground-breaking idea in AI. That's why I don't care about resume's and truly senseless programming quiz interviews. They are useless.