Comment by Kamq

> 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.