We put this in place to automate the screening of applicants after our first round of advertising yielded a glut of people who could barely write code, and no o

We put this in place to automate the screening of applicants after our first round of advertising yielded a glut of people who could barely write code, and no one who was actually worth taking past a phone screen. Since then we've been receiving applications of a far higher calibre, and many applicants who went onto a full interview after phone screening. We definitely receive fewer applicants, but that's a trade off we're willing to make.