Oxford Knight is a technical recruitment agency. None of our consultants have written a line of code... yet. So it seems to be a company-wide feature. It's har

Oxford Knight is a technical recruitment agency. None of our consultants have written a line of code... yet. So it seems to be a company-wide feature. It's hard to see though how technically semi-literate technical recruiters can be a good thing at all. Perhaps this explains in part this other telling quote from the article: I recall the candidate in question being perfect in every aspect (CompSci from top university, sound understanding of data structures, algorithms, complexity... coupled with actual practical programming experience, and oh yeah – decent knowledge of Exotic Risk and Pricing). Note the order of qualifications, suggesting that having top marks from Oxford is just as relevant/important as knowing how to crank through data structures/algorithms questions; with having actual programming or domain/relevant experience as just a nice plus. Very telling of their mindset, but also understandable if they are not qualified enough to assess the technical competence of candidates on technical terms alone.