[LgWoodenBadger]

Lame? It’s a bare minimum demonstration of ability.

The number of experienced candidates I’ve interviewed just in the past few months who have trouble writing a for-loop in the language they’re “experienced” in might astound you.

Welders sometimes (always?) have to go to a certification center to demonstrate that they can actually perform the types of welds the job they’re applying for requires.

https://www.aws.org/Certification-and-Education/Professional...

[michael_mroczka]

You're 100% right, but I think your experience is different than recent job seekers. I think this is mostly semantics. You're asking simple problems and are amazed at the number of people that can't do them.

In the current job market, however, lots of places are asking ridiculously hard verbatim leetcode questions in an attempt to filter out "bad candidates." Job seekers feel that too many places ask unfair questions (which is true) and employers feel that there are too many candidates that can't write genuinely simple programs (also true).