Comment by eckesicle
1 month ago
> This is the part I disagree with. It hasn't been true for years. Anyone with the free version of ChatGPT can pass a hacker rank today.
It certainly still is true today. Anybody who is sufficiently motivated to cheat can pass it. It was true prior to ChatGPT, and it still remains true today. And yet they don’t. Most people completely fail these screens
> It does for mine, because we've hired all of the good developers that get through the process you're describing and it isn't enough.
Then your industry is atypical in the type of applicants that you are getting. So to accommodate you’ve had to increase your false positives to reduce false negatives. That’s completely fine if it’s what you need to do, but it’s not the typical experience for a tech company.
We also do a pair screen after the code test and we still reject around 80% who make it to that stage. How do you scale interviewing everyone if you don’t pre screen?
> Then your industry is atypical in the type of applicants that you are getting
Based on the quality of candidates that get through at other companies, I'm guessing our problem isn't atypical. Or at least, good devs often aren't getting through their pipelines at all. It's possible that in trying to reduce the false positive rate, they screened out all of the actual positives, but that doesn't paint a good picture of the industry.
> How do you scale interviewing everyone if you don’t pre screen?
We do pre-screen. The fact that they haven't encountered a tricky algorithm before isn't a problem. For ones where the syntax is valid, a dev at my company does a code review on it.