> I once thought they were purely hazing with zero relevance to day to day work, but as I get more senior I drift further away from that opinion.
A lot of it is/was. Hiring managers for a long time didn't know how to hire devs so they would have devs hire devs and, well, devs like to have lots of pissing contests and that spilt over into interviewing techniques which got cargo culted because that's another thing devs are outstanding at.
A lot of it is/was. Hiring managers for a long time didn't know how to hire devs so they would have devs hire devs and, well, devs like to have lots of pissing contests and that spilt over into interviewing techniques which got cargo culted because that's another thing devs are outstanding at.