ITT: How to hire formulaic robots and reduce an entire profession to paint by numbers. This is really no different to current hiring though. In that you force people to learn arcane algorithm skills they will likely never use at any software company and you end up with entire books written on 'cracking the interview' over being a good engineer. The best companies I've ever seen actually looked at the work I had done enough to assess what kind of skills I had. But hiring is about being lazy. Good luck finding many companies who will actually treat you like an adult these days.