At a band audition being asked to whiteboard the physics formulas for my instrument’s harmonic series without playing a single note … oh, wait, no … at an interview being asked to code yet another sort algorithm. Hiring’s become completely tone-deaf.
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Oh, wow! I guess with so many startups out there, it makes sense that inane hiring practices have infiltrated the startup world.
Yes, the funny this is...the mantra used to be for large companies "to act like startups". Now, as I have personally seen with hiring practices among other things, startups now strive "to act like big companies". Neither mantras amount to much other than a lot of moaning.
Let me try an educated guess: the hiring manager knows absolutely nothing about coding and mathematics ;)
Talent determines success. All great companies have been built by aggregating superior human beings and keeping brainless ones away. The interview mentioned by the OP was a great success for the company.
You clearly don't code.
Your clearly don't code. Or enjoy being on stage while girls throw their bras towards you. Hint: the guy who plays the instrument is the superior human, not the guy who built the guitar. One involves creativity, the other involves repeating the same process, over and over.