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> Companies that use l33tcode are filtering out pools of talent, in exchange for monocultures of echo chambers.

Please explain why do you believe that not moving forward with a candidate who fails basic coding challenges leads to "monocultures of echo chambers".

> The fact that this ^^^ is run by AI shows just how irrelevant technical interviews like this are these days. Why take a closed book test for a job that you never have to work a day in your life with the book closed?

You're trying to fabricate scenarios that never applied. There are no "book closed" exams, and no company hires developers on hard skills alone.

> If you are an experienced dev, u can rank other devs pretty quickly with a general conversation about any technology.

No. No, you don't. You think you can, but you're just deluding yourself. You have no idea if your personal biases got your best candidate rejected, or if your pick just is a top of the barrel candidate who enchanted you with buzzword lingo? This is a fact, and I've seen this play out in real life. I've seen team leads succumb to this sort of delusion and ehen they realize they hired smooth-talking scrubs that need constant help from junior devs to unblock themselves, you start to hear excuses such as "he was given an opportunity but squandered it". This is something that negatively impacts everyone involved.