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It's also a great way to filter out anyone who has any kind of commitment like kids, aging parents to take care of, or have health issues themselves that makes it hard to cram leet code non stop on top of a busy career.

For companies this is very rational, you want non-distracted employees who can work over time.

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It's really not that rational unless you want someone only familiar with being the top code monkey.

In all my years of sw dev the number of times that would have helped vs being able to communicate and manage expectations across a swath of people is like 1:1000.

To be fair, you need at least one person on the team to do the actual work, while everyone else is “communicating and managing expectations”.

That statement is not untrue, but I think it over-estimates how much of the "actual work" is banging out code, vs. making sure the correct code is being written.

Yea, I've worked in a place where it was just "coders coding" and nobody was communicating and managing expectations, and that was its own unique form of awful. You need both.

It’s actually possible for members of the team to be capable of doing “actual work” in addition to being good communicators.

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