[smathieu]

I have been doing a lot of phone screens for our company lately. We ask a FizzBuzz like question in our first phone screen.

So far, only 30% of applicants manage to go pass this point.

It's actually quite hard to believe. Guys who claim to have multiple apps under their belt simply cannot write code. I often question them on what they did in their past and what was their actual contribution to their team. The two most common scenarios are either the so-called technical manager who got promoted there become of lack of coding abilities or the self-taught programmer who was hired by the technical manager. By self-taught, I mean someone who can write HTML and copy/paste JavaScript code from somewhere.