[ThrowawayP]

> "I've recently impressed upon my startup that we don't need to always do "coding tests" of engineering candidates (e.g., if obvious from discussion, past roles, open source, etc.)"

Y'know, I look really good on paper. Long history of significant contributions to projects that are household names at major tech companies, I know my stuff, and I can talk a pretty good game if do I say so myself. I am also so utterly burnt out that I can barely put two lines of code together. Your system would fail to avoid hiring me.

Always do the coding test. Even the FAANGs have hiring mistakes, people who get locked in a niche and let their skills rust, and just plain burnouts that you don't want joining your company.

[neilv]

If you think the barrier to you passing a coding exercise right now is enthusiasm or cognitive... do you think you'd nevertheless be up to faking the rest of a qualitative interview process, so well that a savvy person didn't get a sense of the barrier?

(As an aside: Sorry to hear you're feeling burnt out right now. I hope you're actively looking for, or have already found/rediscovered, whatever makes you happy and fulfilled.)

[maltalex]

Would you mind sharing the story on how you got so burnt out?