[arthurcolle]

> So maybe the interview process in 10 years is more like: "build an auction site like ebay in the next hour."

This is very "Monkey's Paw" and I can absolutely see something like that taking hold, as sloppy and stupid as such a task might be.

I had an interview with a YC company who asked me how to do something, and then I did it, and then they asked "how could I make it a one-liner" - immediately thought was "I'm pretty sure I don't want to maintain a codebase full of fun little one-liners for everything" - managed to get it, but it definitely looked like crap.

If I were to get asked to build eBay in an hour, I'm sure my auction model would be 1) shit, 2) very prone to social engineering type attacks (fake bids, etc)