It's very funny how many people defend coding challenges when NOBODY else does these sort of things to get hired. Are analysts asked to work on Excel spreadsheet? Mostly not. Are managers asked to "manage" something? Nope. Are engineers (the real ones) asked to design a functioning bridge? Nope.
And the reason is that all these things are basically worth nothing: the example of the guy over 50 speaks volumes, I bet that he wrote some of the best code they've ever seen, but guess what, it would have never worked out.
They hire you if they feel like it, regardless of what you can do (and someone has to show me some scientific results since you state that "this is the only way") in a coding challenge.
Google has basically destroyed the basis of the modern hiring industry by simply saying: "We've interviewed so many candidates and hired so many people that we can say that a degree is worthless".
What the people defending tests are saying is that even if the demonstration of having spent at least 4-5 years studying hard and PASSING TESTS is worthless, their 90 minutes test is much better at filtering people out!
This is one of the biggest logical fallacies ever, and if you fall into this one, than I'm sorry, but you don't understand Type II errors and those are important in our profession.
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It's very funny how many people defend coding challenges when NOBODY else does these sort of things to get hired. Are analysts asked to work on Excel spreadsheet? Mostly not. Are managers asked to "manage" something? Nope. Are engineers (the real ones) asked to design a functioning bridge? Nope.
And the reason is that all these things are basically worth nothing: the example of the guy over 50 speaks volumes, I bet that he wrote some of the best code they've ever seen, but guess what, it would have never worked out.
They hire you if they feel like it, regardless of what you can do (and someone has to show me some scientific results since you state that "this is the only way") in a coding challenge.
Google has basically destroyed the basis of the modern hiring industry by simply saying: "We've interviewed so many candidates and hired so many people that we can say that a degree is worthless".
What the people defending tests are saying is that even if the demonstration of having spent at least 4-5 years studying hard and PASSING TESTS is worthless, their 90 minutes test is much better at filtering people out!
This is one of the biggest logical fallacies ever, and if you fall into this one, than I'm sorry, but you don't understand Type II errors and those are important in our profession.