I like your choice of the word myopia, because I think you've accurately captured one of the central problems in hiring. Rather than finding ways to accurately

I like your choice of the word myopia, because I think you've accurately captured one of the central problems in hiring. Rather than finding ways to accurately assess whether a person can do the job, grow in their career to benefit the future needs of the team and company, we instead look to more or less trick them using technical games and puzzles that generally have nothing to do with the work they will be doing. > I think it’s a symptom of the tech world wishing to be associated with generally progressive human values I'm having trouble parsing this part of your statement, but let me say that I think it is more a function of the personality types that get into software development and technology more broadly. Many of us are INTJ types (self included and yes I know that Myers-Briggs is bunk to many of you), and many of us have what was formerly called Aspbergers. In short, there are particular personality types that go into these fields, and those personality types fixate on details. So it isn't surprising that's how many then interview and expect their fellow team members to exhibit similar traits. Without going too far off tangent, I think this is often why this field is seen as combative towards women and non-white people, IE: it has less to do with a deliberate desire to exclude and more to do with the quirks of the people who enter this field.