[jkcorrea]

> If you were capable of studying Leetcode so hard that you mastered the interview process at one of the most selective software companies in the world in only a few months, it's not much of a stretch to imagine that you could apply that same aptitude, ambition, and ability to learn quickly toward picking up the basics of git, dev ops, and so on.

So by that logic, why not just create some game for candidates to master. If all you're testing for is "how much they want it" and how quickly they pick up on some arbitrary system that they'll never use in their actual job, then the subject shouldn't matter, right?

[barry-cotter]

> So by that logic, why not just create some game for candidates to master. If all you're testing for is "how much they want it" and how quickly they pick up on some arbitrary system that they'll never use in their actual job, then the subject shouldn't matter, right?

You have reinvented the Chinese civil service examinations, congratulations. More generally the higher stakes a test gets the less the subject matter matters. If you make admission to Harvard or Cambridge based solely on interpretation and knowledge of pre 2000 rap it won’t be long until the same people who would have done well on a test of English literature are intimately familiar with Tupac.

[Icathian]

They already have. And at the time it was being developed and gathering momentum, some plausibility as a thin defense of it was helpful. Why go through that process again now when the existing system is already firmly in place?