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> Obviously mistakenly forwarded it back to me instead of to his bro who he wanted to do his coding test.

Long time ago a guy I knew send me a quiz that apparently from a job interview, I pretend I've never received it ("Oh sorry, it must be filtered as spam").

My opinion, you shouldn't hire someone who can fail on a task that as simple as forwarding an email to someone else on such situation.

LOL

Oh come on, people make silly email mistakes all the time. You don't want to hire someone that's going to lie about finishing their coding quiz, but if they screw up an email in an innocent way, it shouldn't be a dealbreaker.

Reminds me of the joke about throwing half of your job applications in the trash because you don't want to hire unlucky people.

Maybe hire one of the devs you interact with to search for duplicates? Searching for duplicates substrings isn't necessarily something that could be done off the shelf but it shouldn't be too hard for a competent dev to get you a working process

I'm a developer - I could do it but I can't be bothered - not important, merely interesting.

Ah well if you ever get the itch and do it, please post the results. I would be interested in seeing the data

> One thing I'd be interested to do is run some sort of duplicate text detecter over my candidate database.

You'll probably get a double-digit percentage of hits. I google parts from every resume I receive when I'm hiring for a position. About half have bits and pieces copied from somewhere else.

Don't forget that you're supposed to paste phrases from the job description language into the resume, so every resume should have a very high baseline similarity.

You're not supposed to do that.

I've been wondering how often #1 happens. Our coding test isn't particularly difficult but it is timeboxed, and somehow candidates pass it who take 15+ minutes to string together a for-loop when they come on-site.

I've received a mistaken "please come in for an interview" email intended for someone else. The recruiter was embarrassed when I illuminated the error. I enjoyed knowing I was "not selected to proceed", even if it was by mistake vs the usual silence.

Home based unsupervised coding tests are fine I think, as long as you ask the candidate to talk through their solution when they come in to meet in person.

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