We send out a coding test to candidates that pass a phone screening. We provide a template file and a run file that contains tests.
I'd say 1/3 of the entries we receive (from people that have passed a semi-technical phone screening!) return an answer along the lines of 'if input = test1, return answer1' and another 1/3, who submit code that is also 'fakes' the correct results, they just pad it out with a bunch of filler code to make it look like they'd done more.
We rate each entry out of 10, its insanely frustrating how many 0's I had out.
I assume that they assume we just check the tests pass and thats that. (Do any companies do this without checking the code? The sheer amount of people that try suggest it must work sometimes!)
Presumably you also have other tests that you run the code on too, that are not sent to the candidates right? That would save some time, say if the code passes all 10 tests sent to the person, and fails all 20 tests that you keep for yourself, then that person's resume would go in the trashbin with little time wasted.
I'd say 1/3 of the entries we receive (from people that have passed a semi-technical phone screening!) return an answer along the lines of 'if input = test1, return answer1' and another 1/3, who submit code that is also 'fakes' the correct results, they just pad it out with a bunch of filler code to make it look like they'd done more.
We rate each entry out of 10, its insanely frustrating how many 0's I had out.
I assume that they assume we just check the tests pass and thats that. (Do any companies do this without checking the code? The sheer amount of people that try suggest it must work sometimes!)