| FWIW, I have a patent and do public speaking, recently sold a startup, and I gladly take the coding quizzes for all my interviews. They are fun, and they give me a chance to shine. The coding quizzes actually saved me once when I did really badly in another part of the interview. That company hired me, and gave me what others there thought was the good job. I also administer coding quizzes to people I hire, and I find them a small but useful part of the larger interview process. I'm giving an assembly language coding quiz to someone later today. > She basically interrupted you from working on something benefiting humanity That seems a little hyperbolic. Do you want the job? You have to spend time interviewing. Simple as that. Don't do the quizzes if you don't want the job. > Then you see the same company awarding their good jobs to friends of higher ups Most companies try to promote from within, and many people think that's a good thing. The alternative is you hire unknowns from outside the company over people who've been there putting in the time and know the system. > just because she was lazy to check your CV and ignorant of the industry It's both presumptuous and pessimistic, and also likely wrong, to assume that a coding quiz implies any laziness on anyone's part. > Imagine the same doing in other areas of industry Other jobs have it much worse, you have to get bureaucratic certifications for a lot of jobs that are a lot less fun than Hackerrank, and take months and months. Or you could be a lawyer or doctor, and you have to raise money and bring in clients in order to get the good jobs. What jobs are you thinking of that have it so much better than programmers? |