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Discussion on: Unpopular opinion? I don't do puzzle coding tests.

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Ankit Beniwal

Same goes with me. I don't understand why competitive programming is being used as a measure to check programming skills in screening processes.

It doesn't seem to test what we need in industry/real world applications.

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ppetermann

Because HR departments and non-tech managers are bad at understanding dev work.

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John Costello

This is the real answer. The prevalence of the badly broken tech interview is gatekeeping power play. It exploits the developers original sin of 'imposter syndrome'.