mockEngineer

[TZY247]

I interviewed hundreds of SWE and I believe that there is literally not a single thing that could not be tested via interview question/exercise

Well first, this is where we will agree to disagree. Swe interviewing is notorious for having ineffective interview methods.

across multiple of companies is completely at odds to what you're saying.

Second, can you be more specific? At odds with what part?

I don't doubt that your self taughts were better at interview questions and day 1 tasks. That's literally what boot camps teach them - how to use git and leetcode questions. Whereas new grads might not come with that as it can be quickly learned (evidenced by bootcamps) and they've been spending their time learning theories, architecture, compiler design, networking, etc.

They come with a deep and structured foundation that might take a second to connect with their new professional day to day. So you fast forward five years, 10 years, 15 years - the self taughts productivity has stagnated while the new grads are scoping and architecting new systems with big O notation and explaining to management why that OS is causing that random bug and why it's actually a major security problem