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What's the alternative? Useless behavioral interviews? Sit-down exams and outdated certifications? Agents, middlemen and other leechers? Getting hired only through connections or favors? That's how every other industry in the world works, and I am thankful that the software industry has a somewhat-sane interview process based on actual skill.

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Crazy idea: sit someone down to an IDE and let them code.

I’ve done this as an interviewer. I’ve created a fairly simple skeletal project with failing unit tests. The coding part of the interview was to make the tests pass by writing the code. It was a pair coding exercise.

I had a company give me a Wonderlic test. If the coding interview algorithm game is the standard at this point, maybe we should be thankful.

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