Okay look, I see a lot of snarky posts here about Leonardo doing Fizzbuzz and Leonardo being in a daylong interview session.<p>Guess what - Leonardo wasn&#x27;t a superstar back then but he&#x27;d worked in Verrocchio&#x27;s workshop, a workshop that was one of the best in Florence. He learned an immense level of technical skills there. Then he also was a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in Florence. Then he painted the Adoration of the Magi (which was never finished, but whatever). Then he made a silver lyre, which the medici family sent to the Sforzas for a peace accord.<p>So the modern equivalent of this is something like (and I&#x27;m making this up clearly) someone who started at a regionally famous company at a young age, worked there for years to cut their teeth, meanwhile was a regular presence at conferences or Meetup groups in the area, who then worked on a company that generated some buzz but didn&#x27;t succeed ultimately, and then one of their VCs introduced him to another company.<p>So, not the same as a person with no experience to show for getting a daylong interview with fizzbuzz and a take home project. In fact the &quot;interview&quot; probably took days to weeks in that case!<p>edit: And yes, of course I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a good way to conduct interviews. But it sure as hell wasn&#x27;t a better or more efficient or more equal opportunity system back then. Progress has happened since then. It just should be happening at a much faster rate now and it&#x27;s not.