> I feel like you’re getting defensive, although I wasn’t attacking you. If that’s how I came off, I apologize. I mean, you implied that people with performanc

> I feel like you’re getting defensive, although I wasn’t attacking you. If that’s how I came off, I apologize. I mean, you implied that people with performance anxity are just fragile people who will break down when an outage occurs and that they are afraid to get out of their comfort zone and then they are applying for a six figures job, you tell me if that's attacking or not. > Your 15 years experience doesn’t guarantee you’ll be happy or successful at Amazon, Google, or Facebook Not sure what's your point here. I can assure you I would not be happy at those companies, but not sure what that has to do with anything? > The cost of hiring the wrong person is exceedingly high Yes, but the current process doesn't guarantee hiring the right person either. You can hire someone who is great at solving coding challenges and puzzles, but who is terrible at working in a team, testing code, reliability, whatever. > Let’s look at the economics. This will not change unless it negatively affects businesses. And so far, it doesn’t. That's just your guess/assumption. You don't know how it affects the business and neither those companies do. Until there is a research or some kind of data comparison your guess is as good as mine. And my guess is that it is bad for business. I know a lot of good programmers with a similar problem. Even in the quoted tweets you have Piotr Solnica and Ryan Bigg, one of the best rubyists out there. If missing out on people like them is not bad for business, I'm not sure what is.