[RowanH]

That's a high bar - in my experience (New Zealand) 1/3 of candidates can't even write any form of code to retrieve a random element from an array. 1/3 have to be nudged along and asked some leading questions, and 1/3 are "what the heck are you asking me that for, I can do that in my sleep, that better not be indicative of the quality of coders... "

There is just so much misrepresentation out there it's insane.

[gedy]

I hear these complaints a lot - and feel like the unspoken problem is your HR or recruiters are non-technical and shovel garbage candidates at devs to sort out. Whenever I've had (technical) engineering managers involved with reaching out and reviewing candidates, we rarely have misrepresentation or fakers.