[ewanmcteagle]

I would submit that the biggest reason for this view and the reason many people hold it is that 37signals as well as most of the programming jobs are CRUD jobs where non-algorithmic skills are probably more important than algorithmic skills and IQ is also less important. Brainteasers are an IQ test where you are not concerned about false negatives.

[wenbert]

I agree with CRUD jobs. And I think in reality most programmer jobs are like that. Unless you get to the point where you design something (ex: a system) and then implement it.