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Discussion on: Why I hate coding challenges in the hiring process

 
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Jeremy Forsythe

Let's be honest - if you can't write a one liner on paper to solve the area of a circle given a radius, you have some work to do before you're ready for this line of work.

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neoan

Well, I don't necessarily disagree that one should know that. But what for? The way you describe it sounds more like you boiled it down to a pure math question.

So not sure if I agree about that being an indicator of whether or not that makes you ready for that line of work.

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Jeremy Forsythe

That one is a softball question to get them loosened up. No it doesn't indicate they're ready for the job but can certainly indicate they're not

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Jason C. McDonald

Exactly. It's easy to forget that half the purpose of screening is to weed out people who aren't right. Such a question may not be able to quantifiably prove any one candidate is qualified, but we can determine several candidates aren't.