[slumdev]

Adding a new hoop is the desired effect, and it does solve at least one problem. If you're at a tech company or some other org that interviews well, you might not have seen it yet.

Many devs are not good at their jobs. They mean well, but they can't solve basic problems without looking at stack overflow. And by "basic", I don't mean leetcode, I mean iterating over a collection.

> Anyone can trivially study and pass

Yes! At that point, I would know that the guy sitting next to me did at least some amount of studying of the fundamentals.