It&#x27;s kind of sad that a person&#x27;s worth can be reduced to such a useless metric.<p>HR has no ability to objectively judge technical talent, so they follow the latest &#x27;flavor of the month&#x27; interviewing strategy.<p>The suits are heavily influenced by sources like Business Insider that repeatedly parrot advice about avoiding &#x27;false positives at all cost.&#x27;<p>Meanwhile the tech specialists who should step in and call BS, won&#x27;t because they&#x27;re to arrogant to admit their own hindsight bias. Ala judging new candidates based on their current level of ability and specialized knowledge rather than the level they were at when they were initially hired.<p>It seems like the industry is dead set on forcing the perception that software development is hard science -- as in -- everything can and should be described in terms of fundamental data structures and algorithms. When the reality is, software development is 95% art and about 5% hard science.<p>The vast majority of clever algorithms and data structures can be implemented in less than 100 lines of code each. What accounts for the other millions of lines of code in a system such as the Linux kernel?<p>The world will never know...