Exactly. He starts with saying that Sergey Brin wouldn't pass Google's phone screening, but (at least when I interviewed with them for an internship) Google pho

Exactly. He starts with saying that Sergey Brin wouldn't pass Google's phone screening, but (at least when I interviewed with them for an internship) Google phone screens with engineers. The conversation was good, the problems were an interesting/fun challenge, and it would certainly have been effective in deciding whether I was cut out for the position. I think that the argument should be rewritten to say that the only people that should be judging competence are the ones that work in the field. An HR person shouldn't be trying to decide whether an applicant has passed a screening. They should get an engineer to talk to them instead and decide.