That’s a disingenuous argument enabling somebody with a massive ego problem.
1) most people here, I believe, don’t have a problem testing a developer’s code writing acumen.
2) People weigh something. Bricks weigh something. It’s the same exercise. The analogy in software would be the difference between asking someone to write _an_ function that can do x vs write _the_ function your company uses to do x.
3) the lions share of counterarguments here propose using real world exercises vs toy problems
1) most people here, I believe, don’t have a problem testing a developer’s code writing acumen.
2) People weigh something. Bricks weigh something. It’s the same exercise. The analogy in software would be the difference between asking someone to write _an_ function that can do x vs write _the_ function your company uses to do x.
3) the lions share of counterarguments here propose using real world exercises vs toy problems