The Lesson to Unlearn
The tech industry has unfortunately adopted the methodology of centralized hackable tests as the canonical gatekeeping method in the form of programming interviews.<p>Most big tech companies don&#x27;t care about how good you have been at delivering some value through creating software: they want to see you deliver a very specific type of performance at a whiteboard. Interviewers are given specific math puzzle questions to ask. Interviewees are explicitly told by the same companies&#x27; hiring departments that they should aim to hack the system by studying books like &quot;Cracking the Code Interview&quot;.<p>This is an industry that prides itself on supposedly making data-driven decisions through A&#x2F;B testing. When it comes to hiring people to make those decisions, everybody just plays along to a decades-old script.