This article defines great and the best engineers by: “For the purposes of this article, we’re arbitrarily defining “great” candidates as those scoring between

This article defines great and the best engineers by: “For the purposes of this article, we’re arbitrarily defining “great” candidates as those scoring between 95th and 98th percentile on our technical interview, and “the best” candidates as those scoring at 98th percentile or above.” A test that they’ve come up with internally. What makes this company an authority on determining great and best engineers purely on data structures and algorithms style interview questions that most likely a recent grad will be efficient with (for software engineers anyways*). This article is standing on a house of cards. It’s first principles lack and the assumptions it makes on top of those first principle is highly questionable. J