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by pixeloution 3839 days ago
I don't think he's exaggerating; for the past 4 positions I've had to fill (at six figure comps) 80%+ of candidates with extensive resumes couldn't solve a simple recursion problem. We give the a notebook with an IDE and access to the language docs.

These folks with many "senior" level positions on their resume can't manage a task our last hire did in about 6 minutes.