> An admin played a prank on a bunch of insane, out of control conspiracy minded screaming blubbering trolls calling him a pedophile with a dumb silly find/replace rule.
"All Trump supporters are dumb racist bigoted uneducated white hick hillbillies, fuck them with a rusty rebar."
Same reason many wanted to emulated Microsoft — they don't know any better. Many claim "it works for Google" without giving it much thought (not a surprise in today's world) but does it really? Google, among others, is a hot mess and precisely for this reason — they hire people who are great in passing tests but can barely function socially and professionally.
But hey — it keeps them busy and removes them from competition, so it's not a bad thing.
> It's not a perfect system but a well-orchestrated coding test is a great indicator of performance.
[Citation needed]
a) I would rather hire someone who needs some guidance but gets along with the team rather than an arrogant coding genius.
b) "Programming interview" = "coding quiz" which means it only measures how well someone can remember something from school or how well they can take tests, neither of which is relevant to any real world job.
c) Successful "coding quiz" by no means indicates one's ability to write software in any capacity outside the given quiz parameters less so as part of a team and even less so among multitude of teams which typically is required to deliver any real life product other than the multitude of *ly.coms or whatever is the trendy naming convention is this week.