I upvoted this because it's well written, even though I disagree with the conclusions. I'm not sure the suggested alternative coding challenges are any better.

I upvoted this because it's well written, even though I disagree with the conclusions. I'm not sure the suggested alternative coding challenges are any better. The text preview one starts ok, but introducing HTML raises the complexity through the roof! I wrote about my own experiences with coding challenges during my recent job search on my blog at https://blog.urth.org/2022/04/19/software-job-search-2022-retrospective-coding-challenges/ https://blog.urth.org/2022/04/19/software-job-search-2022-re... I'll summarize my conclusion about live coding challenges, which is that I'm not convinced that my performance on these challenges reflected any abstract skill I have. Instead, they mostly reflected the fact that the problems I was given were either nearly identical to work I've done in the past, or were similar enough to things I'd done recently that they felt pretty easy. I guess there's _some_ signal in that, but I don't know if it really says anything about how good I am at coding in general.