Top answer to the blog post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item/...

"I've made a career fixing a ton of horribly shitty, inefficient code that's been produced exclusively by people who pass these interviews."

Which is gold, imho <.<

I also like this commenter's logic that he wouldn't do a lot of prep work in his free time just for a job interview because he already has a job. If companies really want to poach employees, they have to come up with something better.