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Re:In Defence of the Technical Interview by pjc50 on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:54AM (#20201363)
> If your candidate truly, honestly has no code available, no enthusiastic references, and you can’t find anyone who worked with them who will vouch for their skill, then do you really want to hire them?

Graduates?

> no enthusiastic references, and you can’t find anyone who worked with them who will vouch for their skill

This will make your diversity even worse unless you're extremely careful with it.

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Re:In Defence of the Technical Interview by irq11 on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:54PM (#20209410)
My advice works better for experienced candidates, but new grads definitely have code to share.

I do think that coding tests have more of a role for new grads, though.

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