It's one of the skills that indicates someone is more than a software-engineering, misanrthopic robot. This world has enough of those. Signalling is an importa

It's one of the skills that indicates someone is more than a software-engineering, misanrthopic robot. This world has enough of those. Signalling is an important thing, it's why you iron your shirt before the interview - it may even be why you have a degree. The cost of false positives is high, so if this filters out skilled engineers who think are appeasing the interviewer's ego, the system is working.