Potential new contract asked for codility test.

[SimonMac]

That's preposterously unlikely, you only have to look at the costs of preparing a test, calling people in and interviewing them to see that. How would it look to the rest of the company, CEO, HR etc, if the CTO couldn't solve problems without calling people in for fake interviews. Just a silly response IMO.

Boo2

I've given such tests

[MrMarkyMark]

How would it look to the rest of the company, CEO, HR etc, if the CTO couldn't solve problems without calling people in for fake interviews. Just a silly response IMO.

Boo2

Not entirely true, please see my post above.
It was for a young company, but, market leader, of course I won't actually name them here.

[Gumbo Robot]

A recruiter has a new gig at £550 pd for a household name, however they want me to do a 60m codilitiy test even with all my open source examples.

Is this a bad sign?

I'd fall at the first hurdle.

I don't even know what this means.

[northernladuk]

I'd fall at the first hurdle.

I don't even know what this means.

Have you tried a search?

[Gumbo Robot]

Have you tried a search?

Ok, fair enough. I've done similar & don't object if it's no longer than 1 hour.

It's the coding tests I object to where they want you to put a full working solution together.

[FK1]

To an experienced person, it is completely stupid.

To a potential employer, less so, given the amount of useless, skill less, lying, chancing charlatans, on the contract market.
If you have ever performed any hiring duties, you would already know this

Tests.
The best one is the market survival test. My company accounts and references tell the real story.

Taxi drivers.
I would fail all of them. Because of they do not use the proper pull and push steering technique and glance to mirrors too quickly

[fool]

If I was interviewing someone I really CBA'd going through github commits to try to judge their work. That CV would go straight in the bin.

Conversely if you said that out loud in many places then you'd probably end up in the bin. Whether or not that's a good thing, you can decide.