Comment by hibikir

Absolutely. Some of my favorite coworkers would never pass a modern, top company interview which I can pass, and not because they are worse in general, but due to stress management. When I am working in one of those that has no hiring shortcuts, I just can't recommend them, because they will fail. In a small enough company, I can say "hire this person sight unseen, and if they aren't good, it's 100% on me", and then they are successful. My time working with them is far more valuable at skill matching than any interview.... but that's not how we do things in most places, because the fear that people will recommend the otherwise incompetent is high, and for good reason. There would have to be consequences for recommending a bad candidate like that.

Now, that doesn't mean that stress management cannot be part of the job: I've worked in the hellish places where an on-call rotation meant at least 4 calls off-hours, and some which needed resolutions in 10 minutes or less from the pagerduty call. Someone with bad stress response is not going to be doing great at that kind of live diagnosing, with possibly many millions for the company on the line. But the number of positions like that, where you are a cross between a developer and an ER doctor are much less common than places that have none of those demands, yet give you a series of leetcode mediums and hards. They might as well be testing for height, or how much you can bench press. It filters, but it does not help.