Here in Europe this sometimes happens (candidates can't code at all), but _very_ rarely, maybe 1 out of 100? Especially as you move eastwards, the base coding abilities start to improve massively for the average candidate - in the UK, if you are stupid you can easily get by on the social welfare system, in Eastern Europe, if you are stupid, you starve. As simple as.
There was a time I used to ask Fizzbuzz-style warmup questions on interviews, but then I stopped because the signal it gave was pretty much useless. The only positive case I can remember was when a tester applied for a dev position.
I worked in Russia and used to think this way too. But once we managed to hire person how couldn't code. At all. He was intelligent during the interview, talked his way through system design section.
But during the probation period he basically couldn't do anything, even simple stuff.
After that I started to block any candidate, who couldn't provide code solution for at least simple problem.
Er, that explanation doesn’t really hold, considering if you’re stupid you starve in the US too, and we get tons of idiots applying for jobs they’re completely unqualified for.
Here in Europe this sometimes happens (candidates can't code at all), but _very_ rarely, maybe 1 out of 100? Especially as you move eastwards, the base coding abilities start to improve massively for the average candidate - in the UK, if you are stupid you can easily get by on the social welfare system, in Eastern Europe, if you are stupid, you starve. As simple as.
There was a time I used to ask Fizzbuzz-style warmup questions on interviews, but then I stopped because the signal it gave was pretty much useless. The only positive case I can remember was when a tester applied for a dev position.