The hiring test that defeated AI - Bite code!

Filtering technical candidates fairly is a hard task: too easy and you don't exclude enough, too much friction and it's a turn off for everyone. At some point, the industry went all in on small tests you would do at home, but AI killed this strategy.

Filtering technical candidates is a delicate balance. On one hand, you might get hundreds of people reaching out, and you don't have the material resources to personally interview them all in person. On the other hand, imposing a heavy price for getting to a live call is disrespectful and inhuman.

While I don't think most of the time you should be hiring the elite (because, guess what, very few companies are actually working on an elite project, get off your high horse), that doesn't mean you should accept incompetence.

In 2010, we were already inundated with bullshit profiles, people attracted by the money but who couldn't do a Fizz Buzz, and this started the rise of take-at-home coding tests.

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