[ehonsey33]

Agreed.

>The tests are therefore all about excluding candidates rather than identifying brilliant young mavericks with potential.

The author assumes that companies want mavericks. Maybe the FAANGs and other high tech firms still search for a few innovators, but wouldn’t they look at other networks besides the typical interview process to identify these candidates?

We are living in an age of developer commoditization, and for many large tech companies the army of assembly line programmers can churn through enough peripheral work at the right price.