[jkhdigital]

Maybe it’s more about culture than skills? I’ve solved 80 PE problems (78 of which are in the first 100) because I enjoy it, and I’m pretty sure that I would get along very well in a team full of others who enjoy PE enough that they voluntarily solved >50 problems. Maybe the goal of that advice is to discourage people?

[eyelidlessness]

That’s awful actually. If it’s actually relevant to the job that’s one thing, but if it’s about selecting for areas of extracurricular interest it’s inherently excluding qualified people and implicitly harming your team by limiting present perspectives.