> You now have a larger pool of great developers you can add to your team but, on the downside, this has drastically increased the number of applications you ha

> You now have a larger pool of great developers you can add to your team but, on the downside, this has drastically increased the number of applications you have to sort through in order to find the right candidate. Could you imagine sifting through 500 applications for a single position? Maybe the problem isn't 500 applications, but rather an organization that is trying to hire too fast by not being specific enough to hiring personnel and services. Shotgun approach is a very effective way to generate spam. Regardless, any job for which an automated online test can reliably be used to filter candidates is a job that's at most a few steps away from automation.