[marklubi]

Having interviewed a number of graduates from code camps, they're definitely just chasing the salary.

Most of them have no actual passion for computing, their scope of knowledge is superficial, and they're asking for six-figure salaries out of the gate.

I had a relatively simple coding assignment (shouldn't take more than 15 minutes) that I would use to weed out those that were just copying and pasting sample code. It required a very large number of values and added an additional profiling step to it. The sample code wasn't performant with a very large number of values, and was painfully slow to use unless you made minor adjustments to a few things.

[rwmj]

Back when we used to interview in person, we used to have a computer and screen in the office running Linux. The number of people who couldn't handle a terminal even to type "ls" was either remarkable or shocking depending on your point of view. We're talking about people who claimed years of Linux experience, applying for Linux programming and administration jobs.