And of course we then will have to hear the sad stories of companies saying &quot;they can&#x27;t find talent&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s not even going into the salary&#x2F;H1B issue, the problem is much deeper than that.<p>- I was an advocate at first, but take home exercises are pretty much useless. Because they at best won&#x27;t fail you. And of course you could have written a new sorting algorithm that works on O(n) but what you&#x27;ll get back is a complaint about coding style<p>- Having a github might be nice but as the article says it seems to be also in the category &quot;won&#x27;t fail you&quot;. It seems to barely matter<p>- And of course companies like Google ignore everything and make a test out of your interview, fail&#x2F;pass grade, period.<p>People are probably missing an empathy component or working outside of the &quot;SV tech clique&quot; where if you don&#x27;t code for 12h per day and doesn&#x27;t know all libraries and algorithms by heart you&#x27;re not even considered