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The reality, for better or for worse, is that a lot of the companies that are using puzzles like this prefer false negatives over false positives. In other word
by dancavallaro11 16y ago
The reality, for better or for worse, is that a lot of the companies that are using puzzles like this prefer false negatives over false positives. In other words, they would rather pass over the occasional excellent engineer than accidentally hire a mediocre engineer. This is the case at Google, Amazon et al, and likely at Facebook and others as well. It very well might be the case that you're just an unfortunate casualty of this sort of hiring practice.
- michaelchisari 16y agoI think you hit the nail on the head, but here's my issue: It's not so much companies like those that have a problem. I've been recruited by all the big guys on the strength of my open source work (save for Facebook, but that's probably due to a major conflict of interest, considering what I'm working on), but the real problem arises when you have smaller companies latching on to this approach, without the recruiting power of a Google or an Amazon. So now I get contacted by a small startup who all of a sudden wants me to take a quiz because they fancy themselves the next Google.