I see this meme a lot and don't think it is a useful framing of what is going on. I'm sure there is one company out there, but I'm willing to bet that none of t

I see this meme a lot and don't think it is a useful framing of what is going on. I'm sure there is one company out there, but I'm willing to bet that none of the companies that matter have actively sat down and a group of people decided to have programming questions explicitly to find people "willing to jump through hoops". Clearly, there are much better ways to test for that specific trait. Including actually asking them to jump through a hoop. I'm not debating that it is a welcomed side-effect that only fails in rare cases like the brew developer at Google. Mostly, I think this is just the result of companies looking to satisfy mainly three competing tasks. One, how do we assess someone can code. Two, making a standardized interviewing approach that many different people can perform. Three, doing it all in a time/resource efficient manner. Obviously code reviews satisfies the first but present very serious reproducibility and time requirement issues. I posit that programming leetcode style questions is the solution that most companies think balances the three. It feels bad as the interviewee because it is a fairly specific skill of programming that you need to practice and you cannot opt for another method to better illustrate your ability.