This is true. That's why the software engineering recruitment process is completely broken... They select for people who revel in unnecessary complexity. What

This is true. That's why the software engineering recruitment process is completely broken... They select for people who revel in unnecessary complexity. What kind of person enjoys spending their time practicing many variations of pointless complicated coding puzzles instead of working on useful side projects or learning new concepts and technologies? The big tech recruitment process is all about puzzle solving under time constraints though. Pragmatic engineers have no chance of competing against the puzzle solvers.