If you get a chance, spend some time helping out with recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates some day. It will make much more sense from the hiring sid

If you get a chance, spend some time helping out with recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates some day. It will make much more sense from the hiring side of the table. You may be fully qualified for this job and the test may be an unnecessary obstacle for you. If you only consider this job in the context of your own experience, requiring testing is going to feel like a dumb move. However, not all candidates are like you. The hiring manager will receive a range of candidates from people far more experienced than yourself to people who aren’t able to write any functioning code without Googling for even basic syntax questions. Back when we did in-person coding interviews many years ago, it was shocking to see how many candidates would arrive charismatic and confident, only to fail because they couldn’t remember the syntax of a for loop in a language they (wrongly) claimed to be an expert in. Look at it this way: If you work at a company that hired everyone based on their resume and nothing else, you would eventually be surrounded by a significant number of people who don’t know what they’re doing, or perhaps don’t care. They reach this point in their career by shifting work to people who do know how to do it and by draining the productivity of people around them. It’s terrible, and the good developers will leave.