>Even companies with near-infinite resources (like Apple and Google) made trivial “worst practice” security mistakes that put their customers in danger. Yet we continue to rely on all these products.

I am at a big tech company and have seen some wildly insecure code make it into the codebase. I will forever maintain that we should consider checking if candidates actually understand software engineering rather than spending 4 or 5 hours seeing if they can solve brainteasers.