[brookhaven_dude]

Perhaps employers not only want the best coders, but also look for traits that enable some to game the system - like having the willpower and discipline to practice and get good at these types of questions.

[mchannon]

Doy.

The point of the post was that they were/are optimizing for the wrong things.

Some people watch "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" and chuckle when they realize they're not.

A smaller subset of people take it to the next level and (would) hire the 5th grader instead of the adult to do an adult's job.

Life's not a game show, but some (most?) of us forget that when we conduct interviews.