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> This is what I don't understand about software engineer hiring. They are ignoring important criteria about fit for the actual job, and focusing on criteria that is either orthogonal or completely irrelevant.

Oftentimes, the people actually designing the hiring process have an imperfect understanding of what work software engineers actually do. They ask the software engineers for input, but optimizing the hiring process to be orthogonal a software engineer's core work responsibilities, so they aren't necessarily going to give ideal advice.