Speaking as a hiring manager, I won't even TOUCH a technical candidate without a coding test. Nope, burned too many times with resumes that were utterly bogus.

Speaking as a hiring manager, I won't even TOUCH a technical candidate without a coding test. Nope, burned too many times with resumes that were utterly bogus. Not wasting my time. Ideally administered at the whiteboard in front of me, so I know you didn't pay someone $5 on a chat board to do it for you. It's not a big one - primary goal is to validate that you've actually worked with a database before. Relevant to the job. But seriously.... - The "Oracle Certified SQL Developer" who fessed up that she didn't know SQL (couldn't even write a basic query) - People that couldn't identify how to join tables... - The "Google / Motorola" Python Dev who didn't understand the difference between a list and dict (which is basic to the language, very first chapter of Dive Into Python) - And massive inattention to detail (leaving out entire sections of the request in their query) Someone else can go attempt to manage them. I'm busy....