Originally Posted by
canadiancow
On one hand, I wouldn't be surprised, because I do interviewing.
On the other hand, our recruiters are getting pretty good at filtering out the trash.
Though some of the phone screen I do are ridiculous.
"I have to write a... a.... a loop? Is that the right solution?"
etc.
LOL our recruiters are terrible at phone screens. We had 2 or 3 CS grads who would completely bomb any sort of technical questions.
I remember with one interviewee it was like "So how would you do x in C#" then they just stared at the screen for a few minutes and we said "It's ok... just write it in any language you want" more starring finally it was "Just describe to me how you would do it" blank stare.
It wasn't some complex problem it was something really easy. I think after that I said "Sorry, we've got some meetings we need to do. Thanks for coming"