> Sure, as long as their only role is repetitive coding tasks that require limited amounts of broadening their experience beyond the DS&A trivia places like Fac

> Sure, as long as their only role is repetitive coding tasks that require limited amounts of broadening their experience beyond the DS&A trivia places like Facebook require. While those "trivia" problems are part of the process for big companies, they are far from the entirety of it. Especially for industry candidates, plenty of other aspects of the interview process focus on broad experience and engineering principles. I have no reason to believe that CS abilities anti-correlates with broader ability/experience. In fact, I'd posit that performance on algorithm problems correlates well with general intelligence, which correlates well with performance across the job.