It's absolutely true that getting through the hiring process is a skill. So is miniature golf. The question is why companies are spending weeks on interviews and logic puzzles when they could just send all their candidates down to the mini-golf course and hire candidate with the lowest score. Unless there's evidence that the skill of resume writing is related to the skill of programming, your candidates will be just as qualified and you'll have saved everyone time and stress.
Not really. When we interview, we look at more than just technical prowess. We want to find people who fit well with the organisation. In fact, being the best possible coder in the world is just unnecessary in what we do. Our interviews reflect that, and I think it would be naive to assume that other organisations don't also tailor their interview process to find the candidates with the best skill set - that means, four our software dev team, coding well but also communicating and presenting well (we have close relationship with our users, seeing them practically daily), writing documentation, training users, writing code that the rest of the team can understand and debug when they are on vacation or sick, without having to disturb them etc. At the end of the day, it isn't just about who can write the most brilliant piece of code....I'll take an average coder with additional skill set over a brilliant coder who grunts in the corner any day.
