> The reason this complaint never changes anything, despite being very popular, is that these interviews serve two purposes that it doesn’t address: 1) they’re

> The reason this complaint never changes anything, despite being very popular, is that these interviews serve two purposes that it doesn’t address: 1) they’re an intelligence test; 2) they’re a perseverance/conscientiousness test. No argument on perseverance, but I don't think it measures conscientiousness. At least, not how I understand the term, which has connotations of intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic. Now, if measuring how a person responds to extrinsic motivation is your goal, then this type of interview does just fine. It measures a person's ability to delay gratification for a later reward (because you can have perseverance without that, which you can also call being stubborn or determination, eg. "I'm going to figure this out even if it kills me" ).