The core problem IMHO is that a great many of the people hiring developers are not themselves developers and have little to no technical knowledge. Companies de

The core problem IMHO is that a great many of the people hiring developers are not themselves developers and have little to no technical knowledge. Companies depend on these ridiculous hiring processes because many decision makers believe it allows them evaluate candidates that they have no other way to evaluate. They see Google using these approaches and figure if it is good enough for Google it is good enough for them -- not realizing that Google is an entirely different situation with needs that don't match their own (Note to 99% of companies in existence, you are NOT Google and Facebook). I speak from experience. I have been hiring and managing IT staff for 20 years. I also happen to have 25 years of experience in development and infrastructure. One of my priorities when taking over an IT division is to get rid of these useless tests and I have received push back from internal recruiters, HR, and non-technical management every time I have attempted to do this. It requires moving a good percentage of of the hiring process from non-technical management to the IT staff and its not an easy change. Recruiters and non-technical management see it as a threat to their positions. Until there is a realization that you have to know something about a topic to judge the skillsets of others I don't see this improving (I expect that to happen... never).