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Hey! To be fair, we don't criticize it (blog post author here), nor do we discourage such training, of course. It is perfectly valid and could be a good ROI, as you mentioned. What we found out is that using algorithmic knowledge as a metric for hiring was suboptimal. As other people mentioned, there's plenty of people w/o formal CS background who can deliver, and there's plenty of people who know algorithms by heart but have trouble shipping things. There's some correlation, of course, but I would say those are different dimensions.

And then it looks like this: when hiring someone, the company measures them by one dimension and then expects them to perform on another one. I did get some backlash for comparing engineers to cooks, heh, but the main point is and always was about choosing the right metric.