[wvenable]

> After being on the interviewer side myself recently, I think those people just don't realize how hiring actually works.

As an interviewer I've never had to give a coding test and I'm not about to start now. I've had people try and bullshit -- not really on purpose -- but asking specific questions weeds them out easily. Often times they don't even know they're failing the questions.

I have a less-technical manager come in on my meetings and by the end he could spot those people who failed without any knowledge of programming at all.

> Of course there are some edge cases where a great developer would fail a leetcode-style interview, but those exceptions are very rare and only seem to affirm the rule.

I did all this binary tree stuff in University decades ago -- I only have so much brain space and studying all this again is going to push out the interesting stuff I'm working on right now.