> It's a shame how our industry is the only highly-paid professional industry where this kind of sophomoric "intellectual hazing" is not only accepted, but also encouraged. I mean, hell, I have like three books on my bookshelf not about how to write good code, or scalable code, or performant code, but merely about how to pass interviews. Yuck.

I don't think it's hazing so much as it is a test, and we're definitely not the only profession that has tests. I'm sure medical professionals and lawyers might have books on their shelves on how to pass the MCAT, LSAT, or Bar exam.

If anything, we've maybe not matured as a field enough to have an actual standardized test for this kind of stuff, which would maybe make things better. But that's doubling-down on the "test-y" nature of coding interviews.