[jghn]

I know this is an outlier, unpopular opinion by my experience has been that the percentage of people who can really talk in depth through technical details but can't write decent code is quite small. But the percentage of people who can talk the talk but can't write code or solve puzzles on the spot in an interview environment is much higher.

Everyone has their one favorite anecdote about the one person who slipped through the cracks and singlehandedly brought their company to its knees. But I contend that people spend far more energy defending against this use case than the reality warrants.