[avereveard]

because doing b-tree traversal from memory on paper correlates only so much with building successful business applications.

there's market leaders breaking new grounds every day, and for those I'd say it might be appropriate.

then there's your average bookkeeping application that is at most transforming existing data based on problem already solved by the customers, and these are like the majority of jobs on the market, but still pretend to hire the best 10th percentile - except they don't provide a 10th percentile pay and the job is boring and soulless so they probably won't even have a 10th candidate apply to begin with

> How does a prospective employer evaluate someone’s problem-solving and programming chops?

how do factory evaluate the capacity to tighten bolts?

this problem was solved by Ford a century ago.

if one's building run of the mill business software with spaceship grade engineering, you're trying to solve a hiring problem you shouldn't be having to begin with.