Developer hiring is not broken, it is the people who do the hiring that are.
It could not be more clear to me and their conclusion only makes me more sure of it
We need to throw away this idea that you can get the measure of a person just by subjecting them to a faux-IQ test.
We need to fully internalize that being a great software developer is holistic and draws on abilities ranging from, yes, technical skill, but also empathy, experience, taste, grit, perseverance, and independence.
Being a great software developer is multi-disciplinary and we need to actively and vigorously reject the notion that just being good at "cutting code" and inverting a binary tree is the end of the story
and is therefore the only axis on which to assess people who work in teams and build products for other human beings.
The kind of person who is able to judge someone for such skills, is also probably very high up the company ladder, a busy person who cannot interview every candidate. At the end of the day, 50% of interviews are going to be conducted by people who were until recently new-grads and have only taken exams which are neither technologically holistic nor gauge for non-technical essentials.
This is not a problem in the system. This is a problem of scale.
It could not be more clear to me and their conclusion only makes me more sure of it
The kind of person who is able to judge someone for such skills, is also probably very high up the company ladder, a busy person who cannot interview every candidate. At the end of the day, 50% of interviews are going to be conducted by people who were until recently new-grads and have only taken exams which are neither technologically holistic nor gauge for non-technical essentials.This is not a problem in the system. This is a problem of scale.