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Discussion on: Keep Calm And Just Say No To Coding Challenges

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Rense Bakker

Coding challenges don't work. They're either so easy an AI can do them, or so hard they eliminate all their candidates and most likely half of their currently employed devs for that matter. They're going to become even more ridiculous now, with over-achieving people trying to come up with coding challenges to fool AI. It's easy to validate whether a candidate can do what they say they can. Just look at their resume. If they worked somewhere for longer than a month, they probably weren't fired on the spot for pretending to be able to do something they couldn't do. Not to mention most devs will have public github profiles that yo can look at. You can literally see exactly what kind of code they committed.