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At the last company I worked for in the U.S., I was part of the hiring process and as a result of a combination of rampant cheating and AI spam - we had to completely revise our procedures and settled on the following rules:

1. Minimum of a BCompSc or adjacent field (using a dedicated academic verification service)

2. Brief 30 minute phone screener

3. On-site interview

The jobs were actually fully remote positions, so we would rent out a shared workspace where we would conduct the interview itself. We found that this cut down on the chaff by about 90%.



Sigh, I'd like to hope that 25 years of dev accounted for the BCompSc.


Yeah. Should always be "Degree in X, or qualified by professional experience."




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