Nah, this is a pretty good rate. Half the applicants can't FizzBuzz on paper to save their lives. If you ask them to actually write code, it would be closer to

Nah, this is a pretty good rate. Half the applicants can't FizzBuzz on paper to save their lives. If you ask them to actually write code, it would be closer to 1/80. Which is why interviewing sucks so hard... most of the time you're just filtering spam. Either you use a ATS or make them do an insultingly easy coding test before they can talk to anyone. People are happy to lie on their resume and cheat in tests to get their foot in the door, which is why smaller companies tend to do the latter. However, this might also mean that OP is using a bad pipeline, probably craigslist or something similarly cheap/free where good devs don't hang around.