I totally agree. My point wasn't that the interviewing system was great. Just that the problem with it isn't what it's trying to test, but how. I have issues w

I totally agree. My point wasn't that the interviewing system was great. Just that the problem with it isn't what it's trying to test, but how. I have issues with people who dismiss the problem space entirely. "I don't need to know CS fundamentals to do my job". To which I say: you do. You're just doing a subpar job because -everyone else- is and that's the standard even though it's suboptimal. (Note I don't have a CS background myself, and thought this for a long time, until I ended up working in environments that were CS heavy and seeing how "hard problems" were trivialized, so we could spend time solving "real" problems instead)