Title: I&#x27;m currently going through interview stages for several companies for the first time in years and the en vogue trend seems to be a timed hackerrank test. Without fail this involves an algorithms-heavy rip off from leetcode&#x2F;projecteurler&#x2F;googlefoobar&#x2F;topcoder culminating in some trickily smart O(N) DP solution. I&#x27;m an experienced developer with 5 years of thorough product experience in the domain. I&#x27;d completely appreciate the importance if the role actually did involve trying to eek out efficiency in a distributed system with high throughput... but 9 times out of 10 it&#x27;s boilerplate business logic.<p>On the one hand I like that it normalises the application process against prejudice (I was lucky enough to go to a top engineering school) so it allows a fair entry level to all, however, it appears to be just an utterly irrelevant IQ hazing.<p>Anyone else going through this pain? What are we to make of the recruiting scene going forward? Are we now at a point where an engineer should at all times be intimately familiar with competitive programming and codegolf techniques?
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