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by warrenm 1421 days ago
>to people who explicitly say they don't know how to write code and spend the entire 45 minutes in an awkward struggle session

If it's important to you to find people who can write code, why are you even interviewing people who "explicitly say they don't know how to write code"? And if you interview them, why are you interviewing them in the same way as people who can write code? And if you interview them, why are you keeping them for 45 minutes on the struggle bus instead of interviewing in a manner they might actually succeed in?