I recently started interviewing developers this way. A simple pre-screening interview weeded out around 80% of the candidates. I'm still amazed at how many peop

I recently started interviewing developers this way. A simple pre-screening interview weeded out around 80% of the candidates. I'm still amazed at how many people applying for a "senior developer" position can't do the most simple of coding tasks. Here's an "Ask HN" post I made about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747653 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747653