Raises hand Dude here who designed and built an early multitenant mobile app server-side support system from scratch, serving millions of daily users (the spik

Raises hand Dude here who designed and built an early multitenant mobile app server-side support system from scratch, serving millions of daily users (the spikes in traffic when our users sent out pushes to some of those apps... yikes), among a bunch of other stuff. Actually, in-fact did that. Code-language-polyglot, often considered the one to go to for low-level stuff (nothing I seek out, I just keep getting that reputation), getting paid to write code for ~22 years now, et c., et c. I've nonetheless bombed "basic coding screens" a couple times, including after having done years of nontrivial and highly-independent coding for pay. And I don't mean leetcode shit, I mean really basic stuff. Some percentage of those folks who seemed great in the interview but failed your basic screens are false negatives, no matter how much you believe no one who had a tenth of a clue could possibly fail them. Maybe that rate's negligible, but maybe it's not. I do think unjustified confidence that very simple tests can't have a significant false-negative rate is part of why so many people are convinced our industry is drowning in expert-level bullshit artists who can't even write a for loop.