At my last job, I was hire #3 and skipped the entire interview process (had worked with my boss for a couple of years already, so that was interview enough). As

At my last job, I was hire #3 and skipped the entire interview process (had worked with my boss for a couple of years already, so that was interview enough). As we ramped up the staff to 20+ we added rigorous interviews until it got to the point where I'm not sure I could have passed it, despite being one of the most productive members of my team in real engineering situations. Similarly at my new company, our coding test is geared toward people with different responsibilities from mine. I'm very much big data / Spark, whereas the test is geared toward full stack developers. They skipped it for me, which is good -- I doubt I'd have passed it. All this is to say, I am skeptical of code tests. I've seen some value (when we filter out really bad apples who can talk well but can't code) but I've seen a lot of negatives, too.