[ebbv]

The site has been crushed under the HN traffic (and wherever else this link is propagating today.) So I can only state my opinion on the title which is; this is a terrible basis on which to decide who to hire.

I would never hire anyone without having an actual conversation with them. Whether I can get along with the person, if they will be a good fit for our team is the most important criteria.

Test taking is not an important skill for any job I'd be hiring for.

[nandemo]

Please consider refraining to comment on a story if you haven't read it. It just adds noise.

Case in point, the article does not recommend hiring without talking to the candidate.

[ebbv]

I usually don't, but in this case the title irked me and sounded like they were advocating just that. Otherwise, what was the point of the blog post (since coding tests are completely standard in the industry)?

Now that it's recovered I see that it was just to shill the author's particular coding test.

Yawn.