I agree with you, and thanks for the feedback. The article is strongly worded to make a point. But the reality lies somewhere with a little more nuance.

As someone who has been on the hiring side of the table, it's definitely true that you need some type of filter for good coding practices beyond the resume. I guess the take-home assignment sort of fills that role, as long as it respects the developer's time.

That said, completing a take home assignment or coding on a whiteboard are not necessarily indicators that the candidate will be a good engineer on the team. I've seen multiple engineers pass the interviews and then struggle to acclimate and ship features once they join the team.

Interviews aren't perfect, I suppose, no matter how you conduct them. I'd just like to see some of the more egregious tactics (whiteboarding, time-intensive take homes) go away.