[fatnoah]

I've been hiring people for a long time and have always been against coding challenges. That was possible when I was only looking for more senior roles or hiring junior roles at a startup or small company. I'd generally talk to anyone that didn't appear incompetent to HR during an initial screen.

Now that I'm hiring for multiple junior openings at a fairly well known public company, hundreds of resumes come in each week, and I added a code test is there to help weed out those who are tragically lacking in skill or effort. The test is about as simple as could be and I generally don't even look at the score. I do look at the code, however.