If people developing a system that controls two-ton death machines get their panties in a twist about having to demonstrate basic competency in a memory-unsafe language… it’s probably good that they quit.
Airline pilots don’t quit in a huff because they have to demonstrate basic competency annually.
Competence is not measured by one's ability to drop a leetcode solution on command.
It is tempting to think otherwise if you have spent effort cultivating that ability. But anyone with better things to do would be justified to read it as an insult.
Right, so it seems (if the news are to be believed) that Elon Musk updated his strategy and asked his new underlings to bring their own code for review...
Of course, somehow according to sentiment here this updated process is still considered an insult...
The autopilot team didn’t like being quizzed on basic c/c++ questions and that was the first time almost all of AutoPilot quit.
Or so I heard.