That's because you can get someone with 10 years of "experience" who can't pass FizzBuzz.
Although trick questions and the like are bad, and a sign that you should avoid the company giving those questions in an interview.
Although trick questions and the like are bad, and a sign that you should avoid the company giving those questions in an interview.
Technical tests are a double-edged sword. For candidates with little to no prior work experience (fresh out of uni for example), it makes sense. Unless serious question marks arose during the prior interviews, I find it disrespectful to play the "stump the candidate" game with candidates who come in with 10, 20+ years of experience. I'm not aware of any other industry that deploys a barrage of obscure technical tests on their candidates the way some companies do in IT.