Yeah, which is why in-person coding challenges became a fashion in the first place. It's shocking to see the number of "software engineers" who manage to engineer for themselves careers where they don't actually engineer software.
If anything, my personal beef with the classic FAANG interview problem is that it's conflating two very different skills. These are "hard" problems, and require some reasoning and logic in addition to coding. What's constantly surprising to me is the extent to which these skills are decoupled. It's routine to find very smart people with excellent math skills who can't code, and the converse.
And the really mind-bending thing to me is that of the two, it's coding which is by far the rarer skill!
If anything, my personal beef with the classic FAANG interview problem is that it's conflating two very different skills. These are "hard" problems, and require some reasoning and logic in addition to coding. What's constantly surprising to me is the extent to which these skills are decoupled. It's routine to find very smart people with excellent math skills who can't code, and the converse.
And the really mind-bending thing to me is that of the two, it's coding which is by far the rarer skill!