[jki275]

How would you know?

Most of us laugh at a question like that on an application and move on. It's not worth the effort. You have no idea what candidates you never even see because of those ridiculous questions on an applications.

[ElCapitanMarkla]

I agree that the MVC question is a boring one but I kind of like life cycle request one. It’s trivial enough that you can answer it in a couple of minutes and gives a pretty good idea if you have the slightest clue as to what you are talking about. I’ve worked with people who look great on paper, you’d think they were Senior material based on exp, etc. But they couldn’t answer that question even with google.

[jki275]

People keep telling me that there are "senior devs" who can't do fizzbuzz either.

[bentona]

The question is, do they get a consistent stream of high-quality candidates via this process? If they do get enough to saturate the rest of their pipeline, why wouldn't they use a filter like this? I too balk at questions like this, but I think it's very reasonable to imagine it being effective enough for them.

[inertiatic]

Because wasting someone else's time isn't great, and we're all human beings and should probably care about that.

But more importantly for the faceless hiring entity itself, because it is very short sighted. It leaves a bad impression at the very least to some people. And more importantly, you are most probably filtering out a lot of people who want to avoid useless work (thus are more likely to optimize processes) and are too honest to simply copy and paste an answer off the internet (thus would likely be honest in their interactions as coworkers as well).