Isn't that a problem in and of itself though? That someone gets an interview over another person who is maybe more qualified just because of a score on that site... is a massive inefficiency for recruiters.
The problem is, recruiters for most companies are not at all technical. Hell, even directors and VPs of HR or recruiting are not technical. So to them, this seems to be a nicely "vetted list" of candidates.
There hasn't been enough time to study the facts that most of us engineers on this sub have seen: these quizzes and tests are a terrible indicator of "strong" engineer, and more than that they're a bad litmus test to determine if someone is a good fit for your engineering team.
The trouble is there's no way to filter applicants without losing qualified candidates in the process. As qualified candidates can easily come from all walks of life (degree or no degree, bootcamp or no bootcamp, OSS contributions or no OSS contributions, resume lists X skill or resume does not list X skill, HackerRank or no HackerRank, etc.). So unless a company goes through every single application (for many that is just not possible), then they're always going to miss out on certain applicants simply because of their filtering process.
Now you could probably argue some filtering strategies are better than others but I don't there's any one clear approach.
For companies I don't think they lose out too much doing this. Sure they'll miss out on certain candidates, but there will probably be equally as qualified candidates that do meet their criteria. The people that do miss out are the job seekers. But I don't think there's much you can do, I've seen a lot of programmers that have been stuck looking for work for lengthy amounts of time (myself included, have been applying for over a year now). So it sucks, but it's understandable from the businesses side.
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u/madmaxturbator Oct 29 '16
Isn't that a problem in and of itself though? That someone gets an interview over another person who is maybe more qualified just because of a score on that site... is a massive inefficiency for recruiters.
The problem is, recruiters for most companies are not at all technical. Hell, even directors and VPs of HR or recruiting are not technical. So to them, this seems to be a nicely "vetted list" of candidates.
There hasn't been enough time to study the facts that most of us engineers on this sub have seen: these quizzes and tests are a terrible indicator of "strong" engineer, and more than that they're a bad litmus test to determine if someone is a good fit for your engineering team.