I've known plenty of CS majors that couldn't write good code when they graduated. There are plenty of people with years of experimce that also aren't very good.

I've known plenty of CS majors that couldn't write good code when they graduated. There are plenty of people with years of experimce that also aren't very good. I don't know anyone that can judge your abilities just from reading your résumé. For the written screen my current company uses it does take time from an experienced engineer to assess it. It doesn't mean you're not worth 15 minutes of time. It means we'd like to spend the 15 minutes deciding if we want to put you on the phone with two engineers for an hour. Interviewing and hiring is expensive and time consuming. Can you blame companies for trying to weed people out as early and cheaply as possible? If you can't write a production quality version of fizz buzz why would I want to talk to you? When you end up on the other side of the table asking the interview questions you see that those stupid programming assignments, that any second year CS student should be able to do, have value. Knowing you're INTJ isn't useful. Obscure language gotcha questions aren't useful. Knowing if you comment your code is. I think you've been through some bad written screening tests. That doesn't mean that they can't have value as part of the interview process.