I insist on discussing salary range up front to avoid wasting everyone's time over the next couple of calls... also coding tests are a pain in the ass and as a

I insist on discussing salary range up front to avoid wasting everyone's time over the next couple of calls... also coding tests are a pain in the ass and as a general rule I don't do them. If I can walk someone through a project I've worked on and discuss it, or do a collaborative code review, that works, otherwise I thank them for the opportunity and move on. I don't get a lot of callbacks anymore since taking this stance, but that's fine. There's a reason why probation periods exist, and after a few years in the field, most engineers are able to adapt to a new code base just fine, it's the soft skills that interviews should filter for anyhow. my2c edit: typo