I agree with the author. As someone in their late 30's back in the job market due to joining a few poor startup opportunities, its terrible. Software engineering is one of the few career paths that experience doesn't mean shit. Everyone here is saying yes its not a big deal to answer stupid questions like fizzbuzz, and while I do answer them... it really inconsequential to the job. Yes I have to regularly practice on sites like hackerrank that really have little to do with my capabilities in executing in a real environment, but really its just memorizing and practice that are almost unrelated to my job function.

Sure you can blame people for not keeping up with their skills and knowledge set like mikestew, but a lot of times this is not what you're interviewed on. Its like interviewing companies are so lazy as to not check your references. Most of the time if the interviewer is knowledgable they should be able to weed out people that are lying on their resumes. Maybe the problem is not with the people lying on their resumes and people that are doing the interviewing.

If I could do it over again, I probably would have gone down a different career path and programmed as a hobby.