[slashdev]

If you believe that, it could be true.

On the other hand there are lots of companies hiring still, so you could also keep working as a software engineer, if that's what you're good at.

The job has changed a lot though, it's not about writing code by hand anymore.

[pjmlp]

Provided one can go through the silliness of fitting golf balls into planes, or going through the algorithms and data structures books from 30 years ago.

[slashdev]

It's not all like that, but yeah there's a lot of artificialness to interviews and there always has been.

[mapme]

What field has interviews without silliness like this. Jobs for lawyers in 1950 when all that mattered was your father and your alma mater? Hard pass.

I would take a interview premised on a know, learnable challenge (even if silly) over one that exclusively relied on what college you went to.