> I've known some very talented developers who could never pass a standard software engineering interview but if you give them a week to create a project they'l

> I've known some very talented developers who could never pass a standard software engineering interview but if you give them a week to create a project they'll have something to you that works. > I've also known some very talented interviewers who have never completed a project from start to finish. Yea, I'm definitely in the first group. From a career progression and remuneration standpoint, it would be much better to be in the latter. I sometimes wish I could trade in my "gets stuff done, right" skill set for "can invert a binary tree on a whiteboard in 2.5 seconds." Sometimes.