This annoys me. Articles like this co-opt a term (technical interviews) and redefine it against a subset of things that qualify as being that term (brainteaser/

This annoys me. Articles like this co-opt a term (technical interviews) and redefine it against a subset of things that qualify as being that term (brainteaser/quiz heavy technical interviews). There is simply no way to reliably hire skilled people without at least attempting to assess their skills. For technical people this means technical interviews. And an interview process that includes a trial project... is still a technical interview. This is distracting from the real issue. Most companies are really bad at scaling their interview policies/processes. Quiz/Brainteaser interviews are born from an effort to standardize evaluations across multiple interviewers and multiple candidates. So rather than focusing on developing an interview process that's focused on finding people that are a good fit, you're focusing on developing an interview process that's first easy for anyone on your side of the table to execute. Structure and process are good when they benefit the prior case, and stifling when they benefit the latter. In the end you wind up with a very expensive and completely repeatable noise generator that's of no benefit to anyone.