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Re:Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? by shagie on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:39AM (#30616537)
> IMHO the real problem is HR: They suck at filtering out IT candidates.

HR is really only qualified to filter out based on the qualifications on paper. These are sometimes misleading and occasionally outright fabrications. Those can really only be verified by someone with the appropriate technical skill to separate bullshit from an accurate representation of the abilities of the candidate.

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Re:Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? by soco on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:18PM (#30617188)
Then why putting them in the hiring process?
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Re:Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? by shagie on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:30PM (#30617402)
They are typically the owners of the application tracking software and schedulers of interviews.

If the hiring manager wants the firehose of the "everyone who clicked quick apply" on LinkedIn or Indeed, then fair 'nuff. However, my reading of the comment that I replied to was the issue that HR wasn't filtering out unqualified applicants. Removing HR from the hiring process won't improve on that issue.

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