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Is the purpose mainly just to prevent spam / completely unqualified candidates? Its rather trivial to do the post for anyone with dev experience so I can't imagine its much use to actually gauge their skills

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That's what we thought too - this was the definite first pass, and we always intended to have a challenge/response type question for extra credit.

But we didn't need it - it turns out the kind of people that are intrigued enough to apply, and have enough ability to install a few libraries are likely great people.

awesome, well I plan on searching for companies that advertise jobs this way, seems like a great way then to get their attention

FizzBuzz is trivial, but there's a reason why it is used so often; the half-foot high fence keeps out 100% of people too stupid to step over it.

I thought employers generally gave FizzBuzz during an in-person interview. Surely a 5 minute phone call from a halfway technical interviewer could provide a way better filter than FizzBuzz, and avoid wasted time by having woefully unqualified people come into the office.

There are lots of filters, if I ever end up in a hiring role I intend to make use of several. Someone may be able to talk the jargon well enough during a 5 minute phone call but I think they should always be asked to write code at the in-person interview stage, and if they can't do FizzBuzz when they're being hired to program it doesn't matter what magic they weaved during the call.

I've done a fair amount of resume screening and it's definitely useful to be able to filter out the obviously unqualified or uninterested candidates.

I checked out the EDITD test and it's a little more involved than Parse's.

I have no idea what port "EDITD" is. Is that supposed to be trivial?

There is a hint on the page - IA is the standard HTTP port

OK, thanks. I got it now (though personally I don't find it very interesting).

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