You'd think that, and it's probably even the smart strategy for the employer... But I remember what the guy who wrote homebrew said about his Google interview process.

Once an HR culture develops, anything sane or intelligent probably goes out the window.

Writing a popular app is hardly the same as being the top authority in a field.

I guarantee when Google hires someone like Ken Thompson, they do not get the normal Google hiring experience.

A popular app? I hardly think homebrew is on the same level as candy crush.

Yeah, Candy Crush is harder to reproduce.

I also doubt that Kenny was having to do daily scrums and explain why the web ad wootigulizer algorithm hadn't had any progress since Monday. Long since in executive management, is my guess.

Let me just preface that inverting a binary tree.. Maybe they wanted a particular answer and it was an off day.

That said, the author of Homebrew would be the top authority in the field of OSX package management yeah? I mean, Apple hasn't even bothered to create a competitor and yet every tech bro at Google using a MBP is going to need to install and use it..

IIRC the homebrew guy ended up going to Apple and worked on... Swift Package Manager. Or maybe I'm misremembering things

Maybe the homebrew guy isn't a good hire?