From my experience, I've seen a huge difference in the quality of developers between companies that conducted strenuous coding tests and those that didn't, alth

From my experience, I've seen a huge difference in the quality of developers between companies that conducted strenuous coding tests and those that didn't, although I'm not sure if the relationship is causal. It certainly does help weed out candidates like the author, who is clearly not passionate about the companies he's applying to. I once took a class in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The professor moonlighted as a consultant for corporations. His advice was for companies to give real-life problems in interviews, as it's the most effective indicator of future job performance. The equivalent in our industry would be coding tests.