Only dumb if the interview actually measures something and can reliably discriminate between people who can add value and those who can’t. Tech interviews are more like a hazing than a data-backed objective process.
Have we given up on the idea of “full stack” programmers? Or is the realm of web development now so overly-specialized that we need to push the idea that there’s no way to cross over?
Although the author made one point that I think is inaccurate: He said it's wrong to hire a front-end engineer to do backend work. In my experience, most FE engineers are more than capable to switch to the back-end, but the opposite is rarely true.