Posts like these reenforce my dismay at the total and utter devaluation of the education system when dealing with recruiters for full-time positions (15 years m

Posts like these reenforce my dismay at the total and utter devaluation of the education system when dealing with recruiters for full-time positions (15 years minimum of full-time education, but you still need that one final test). That said, I don't have a problem with these tests if the setter understands that they are not there to filter in or out the competent, but instead serve as a filter of convenience because dealing with 60 resumes is easier than 600. This seems an acceptable pragmatic approach. When rubber hits the road a business needs to make money by being competitive. If having read a book on JUnit is your metric for hiring competitive employees, so be it. I can't help but wonder if there is a sizeable amount of latent competitive advantage in the complement of this set.