I’ve been a hiring manager at both startups and FAANGs and code tests are absolutely useful. The only candidates who I have ever heard complain about them were

I’ve been a hiring manager at both startups and FAANGs and code tests are absolutely useful. The only candidates who I have ever heard complain about them were ones that couldn’t pass and blamed others for it. Things like forgotten return statements in C++ causing stack corruption were blamed on the boilerplate test code, and every time we dodged a bullet by discovering bad candidates. I honestly don’t get how anyone could be offended by a coding test. It’s what we do as programmers and I’m deeply suspicious of those who refuse.