I agree completely. If you are hiring someone for a position where they are expected to write code, you should verify that they can actually write code, everything else is secondary.
And yet, here we have this article, and a bunch of commenters who seem to think it's perfectly ok to not verify the main requirement of the position. It's madness!
And yet, here we have this article, and a bunch of commenters who seem to think it's perfectly ok to not verify the main requirement of the position. It's madness!