Hackerrank is a really good tool to separate the incapable from the capable, but not a very good one to separate the good from the best (or even the average fro

Hackerrank is a really good tool to separate the incapable from the capable, but not a very good one to separate the good from the best (or even the average from the good). It's impressive the number of supposedly senior candidates that can't follow simple instructions from the platform or write a couple of lines of code in their language of choice to sort the words in a string or something similar. I fully agree that multiple complex algorithm or puzzle questions are bad - require a longer time investiment that most candidates should be willing to devote to such process, are distanced to the reality of most programming tasks and favor those who enjoy and practice programming puzzles.