Unfortunately so. A ten minute chat with the HR drones who are able to answer virtually nothing about the role followed by a three hour hacker rank challenge or something similar. I even wrote a small application an stuck it n Heroku as an example of my work.<p>I used to be good at those kind of tests 15 years ago. Now I am orders of magnitude more competent at designing implementing and deploying systems I have way more knowledge in all of those areas, but I get tested on that nonsense. I hardly ever write algorithms (occasionally), as I will look for an appropraite library first.