>Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? Yes, I refuse to take them. Fortunately I've built a pretty good network and reputation over the years so I get hired

>Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? Yes, I refuse to take them. Fortunately I've built a pretty good network and reputation over the years so I get hired over a lunch meeting. I haven't done a serious cold code interview in years. The last one I did was around 10 years ago and I kinda wanted to do iPhone app development full time. I had several apps on the Apple App Store. They were live/downloadable and the published by was obvious it was me. One was in the top 10 list of its category at the time. The company still wanted me to "write a quick Twitter client app by tomorrow." I did it and they kept asking for more. I finally told them I wasn't interested anymore. There wasn't an HR department or anything, it was a small startup with funding. That company is out of business now. I'd have to be pretty desperate to do that again. I've been on both sides of the hiring table. I suspect most good senior devs won't put up with these type of shenanigans, so but requiring this sort of stuff, you're limiting your candidate pool to poor or mediocre or rising star that will leave in a couple of years at best. You should think of a question that any senior developer would know but someone who's never coded wouldn't. Something really simple like, "when declaring a method, what keyword do you use to denote that it will return nothing?" I say this every time this comes up, but the cargo cult is strong.