When I was involved in hiring at a company, we found some amazing candidates through code screens whom we never even would have interviewed otherwise. They were

When I was involved in hiring at a company, we found some amazing candidates through code screens whom we never even would have interviewed otherwise. They were terrible at resume writing, didn’t present themselves well, but could code well and were very engaging once they got past initial discomfort. I get the frustration of senior devs at going through this stuff, but the alternative is a weird form of credentialism based on seniority.