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by dabockster 2919 days ago
If you live near enough to a tech hub, you have to assume you're going to be code screened and whiteboarded. Companies around here (Seattle) use it as a cost cutting measure so they don't have to spend time and money manually interviewing every single candidate. It's significantly cheaper to enforce a competition-style coding challenge and pick off the top 5-10% performers (example figure) of the challenge for the actual interview.
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London is a "tech hub".