Richard, one of my colleagues at Readify, wrote an interesting blog post about how he learnt the hard way that if you want to hire a software developer you need to check her/his skills by giving her/him a coding exercise to solve. If you don’t do this you are simply asking for trouble. Have a look at Richard’s blog post for more details.
When I was looking for a job in Australia and I got in touch with a few companies and some of them didn’t require me to write any code. Those companies were immediately off my list. Moving to the other hemisphere was risky enough that I didn’t want to deal with companies that didn’t pay attention to their recruitment process. What is more if a company doesn’t bother to interview you properly that might be a sign that they won’t treat you well.
Just my two cents.
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