Why coding interviews aren't all that bad
The author exhibits huge confirmation bias in their example of an otherwise good applicant stumbling on a technical test. They assume without any doubt that this means they narrowly avoided a mishire.<p>Testing for simple algorithms knowledge biases for recently graduated people who have these in their active memory. Experienced people rarely encounter these details in practice and are more likely to have their heads full of deep knowledge no one in your organization knows about. If you screen these people out, it will be quite literally your loss.<p>Technological fields are blue oceans where only junior people spend significant time near the safe harbors. Experienced people have sailed far away and seen lands you don&#x27;t know about yet.<p>People also have this inherent bias of treating everything they know well as some common knowledge everyone else knows as well, or at least should know. This bias of underestimating the vastness of the field is largely because of inexperience. People who haven&#x27;t seen how deep it goes are liable to think that the basic university exercises are the important things.