[collyw]

"Technical jobs like coding require you to demonstrate ability".

Yet they test you on an hour and a half online "coding challenge", which is completely irrelevant to day to day work. I have been looking for a senior level job recently and only one place has actually asked me questions that I consider relevant. In another I had to calculate the inersection of two rectangles for a Django job. I managed it, but it has nothing to do with my coding ability, knowledge of Pythonic / Django ways of doing things or anything that I would be doing on a day to day basis.

[lordnacho]

Yes, there's a high false negative rate incurred by doing it this way. I know what you mean, I actually did the same question not long ago (given the 4 corners, return the intersection area), and I too think it's irrelevant.

But it is definitely the case that someone who can't code could not possibly pass this test.