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Hackerrank was broken – but now it's harmful

I had an interesting conversation with some junior and mid-level engineers recently. They were pretty discouraged about whiteboading coding tests.

Whether it's ChatGPT or specialized "Coding Interview Assistance" tools (I won't link them, you can find them), people have come to rely on them heavily. Hiring teams keep raising the bar arbitrarily, trying to find the candidates who are best at prompt engineering their way through a coding test. So at the end of the day, the people who get into the second round of interviews aren't the best software engineers.

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