Applicant: I have 7 years of experience in software development industry and here is my repo/portfolio for you to look at.

Manager: I don't need it. Take the 5 hours coding exam.

*Applicant scores low

Manager: You didn't score high. Thank for applying at Stack****. Goodbye

Applicant: Wait, sorry but do you judge all applicants only through an exam?

Manager: Yes. Exam tells how expert the applicant is.

Make sense if the test is not full of sh*t that you never use at the job.

@nam17887 What if your 10 years of experience was in JS development? You wouldn't need to know about thread safety working on the front end of web applications. The exam would definitely have to be focused specifically for the job.

Also, I would say that everyone has blind spots in their knowledge base, the existence of which do not negate someone's abilities. I do understand ensuring candidates understand underlying concepts that they will need, however.

@nam17887 I call BS on exams and exercises. By nature they highlight an impossibly narrow part of the applicant's knowledge.

If you want to actually tell a lot about an applicant, hire him/her and use the probation period.

@magicMirror without knowing the contents (or at least the general nature) of the exam, claiming the dev lied is a huge, unwarranted jump to conclusions.

I myself have passed some tests with flying colours, some with solid results, and failed some miserably. All without ever lying. Some tests just suck.

The test was more of an algorithm test only. The ones similar to Codewars, HackerRank, etc.

So may you be an Asp.net, Angular or Wordpress applicant, you must get that exam. That's what they do.

@smirving That was the interview for a "senior .NET engineer"

I believe if it was JS you'll see similar people too

@VaderNT Nobody said you lied. Tests are there to prove any dev who claims that he can code, can actually code.
Otherwise, anyone can claim that he can code, or fly, or swim, or write a non blocking queue with multiple consumers/generators. Anyone!
And you would have to hire him....

@magicMirror Oh don't worry, I didn't interpret what you wrote as such. With saying that I didn't lie I just wanted to emphasize that even without lying, results can vary wildly.