You’re just a crotchety old grumpy greybeard is what you are. (Teasing) I think it’s plain as day to both of us that the new grads are outperforming experience

You’re just a crotchety old grumpy greybeard is what you are. (Teasing) I think it’s plain as day to both of us that the new grads are outperforming experience because of practice. You could practice to get your solve times down below new grads. I posit that the dsa puzzle interviews have become prominent as a solution to a very specific problem: lots of very qualified applicants. When done correctly (with many rounds and equally qualified evaluators), the interviews produces few false positives (when it comes to being able to code effectively). Does it find people who are passionate about software? Does it find people who are good at refactoring complicated codebase? No and No, but the people it finds can stay afloat in a scrum. Finding the real gems is extremely difficult.