Perhaps I have misinterpreted you or read too much into what you said. I'm sorry if my response came across as a personal attack.
All these threads about interviewing over the years have definitely left me with a bitter taste, mainly due to all the people who think they're clever and have figured out the most important thing, that one thing by which all applicants' worth can be tested.. if they just know about this one little thing. And in doing so, they effectively trivialize the software industry as a whole, failing to realize just how wide and deep it is, completely oblivious to how different developers with up to two decades of experience even in the same subfield may have walked rather different yet fruitful paths.
All these threads about interviewing over the years have definitely left me with a bitter taste, mainly due to all the people who think they're clever and have figured out the most important thing, that one thing by which all applicants' worth can be tested.. if they just know about this one little thing. And in doing so, they effectively trivialize the software industry as a whole, failing to realize just how wide and deep it is, completely oblivious to how different developers with up to two decades of experience even in the same subfield may have walked rather different yet fruitful paths.
Again, I'm sorry.