I'm not sure there's so much agency in any of this. Most of it is probably cargo-culting. Every software shop wants to be Google, so they do what Google does (o

I'm not sure there's so much agency in any of this. Most of it is probably cargo-culting. Every software shop wants to be Google, so they do what Google does (or what they think Google is doing). It doesn't matter if they do it well, or understand (or agree with) the ultimate purpose of the process. If Google engineers all wore pink robes and top hats while interviewing then we'd see that everywhere.