[jasonrhaas]

Wow, there are so many new ways that people are coming up with to recruit software developers. Clearly there is a problem here that needs to be solved.

I understand that the company needs a way to vet people to make sure they are technically proficient for the job. However, there must be a better way of filtering people. I just bailed on a company after they told me what the interview process would be:

- Take home coding quiz where you need to sign up and use their algorithm platform. As you would expect, there was asynchronous programming and a recursion algorithm involved (two for one!)

- 3 more technical interviews. 2 of which were screen share and/or white boarding sessions. 1 is a "riddle part", which I assume is some kind of brain teaser involving a recursive algorithm.

After I saw the coding quiz and all the follow on stuff I just told them I wasn't interested. I was kind of offended, and it didn't put me in a positive mindset towards the company and engineers that worked there.

[scruple]

It all amounts to little more than our industries hazing rituals.

[nathanaldensr]

This is what I tell people all the time. That one word sums up nearly every dysfunctional interviewing and filtering process.

Hazing.

It's just monkeys making sure they only hire other similar-looking and similarly-acting monkeys.