https://zachholman.com/posts/startup-interviewing-is-fucked/

Silicon Valley is full of startups who fetishize the candidate that comes into the interview, answers a few clever fantasy coding challenges, and ultimately ends up the award-winning hire that will surely implement the elusive algorithm that will herald a new era of profitability for the fledging VC-backed company.

Most startups have zero users and are a glimmer of the successful business they might wind up being some day. But we’re still romanticizing the idea that programming riddles will magically be the best benchmark for hiring, even though technology is very rarely the cause for any given startup’s success.