
Assessing a programmer’s coding skills when hiring them can be a hit or miss affair but it is arguably the most important element of any technical recruitment effort. More than 50% of recruiters reported that their main challenge when hiring developers was to find properly qualified staff and that the majority of poor hires came from a lack of appropriate technical skills. They may present with a good resume that lists the technical skills you require but you may subsequently found they oversold themselves. Alternately some developers have the skills but are not particularly good ate selling themselves and you