The number of applicants is ENORMOUS but the number that are hirable engineers is not. I think the stupid trivia is just filtering by necessity. The take-home

The number of applicants is ENORMOUS but the number that are hirable engineers is not. I think the stupid trivia is just filtering by necessity. The take-home project followed by discussion is great, but can it scale up to Facebook and Google? Are you going to have engineers doing several of those per week? It's already difficult to come up with algorithm questions that are novel enough that candidates haven't already practiced the exact question, as found in some aggregation site. How do you avoid that with project work? I agree the system is terrible, but I see how we ended up here too.