The coding interview comes usually after they vet your resume, any profiles, get you talk to an HR, and potentially check your references. Even the coding inte

The coding interview comes usually after they vet your resume, any profiles, get you talk to an HR, and potentially check your references. Even the coding interviews are just a signal against overall performance given a short amount of time. It's only a sample of data, but if you did your interview right you should be able to protect some against bad people getting very lucky. Just like driving a car; bad drivers tend to stay pretty bad, and good drivers tend to stay safe. Even though there's a lot of ways to define what is a good driver, there's clearer ways to define what is a bad driver, and if someone was a bad driver yesterday they are still probably a bad driver.