From the President of Grant Street For some reason your initial post and our CTO's response were removed from the GD site. So here was our response to your original post: We are sorry that you had a negative experience with our hiring process and we understand your reaction given that you scored 94% on our coding challenge. You are right that our approach to hiring software developers is focused on coding abilities much more than the resume. This provides a level playing field for all candidates: if a candidate can code at a high level of proficiency, we will want to talk to him or her, regardless of professional experience thus far. Please note that the automated coding score, however useful it may be, is a crude measure of coding abilities. We do scrutinize the code submitted before selecting candidates for the next stage. We have received a large number of entry level candidate applications, so we have had to be more selective with the coding challenge to ensure those candidates who we interview have a fair chance of getting an offer. The feedback we have received indicates most candidates approve of this approach of coding first and interviewing second, which makes our hiring as fair and open as possible, but we do understand that it makes the coding challenge more selective due to the large number of candidates applying. And here is my response to your subsequent post: Our HR department conducted a thorough search of all communications we have had with developer applicants over the past few months -- twice. We could not find any communications of the nature you describe, nor could anyone in HR recall responding in the fashion you describe. Such a response would be inconsistent with our commitment to treating all applicants respectfully. It would also render our effort to reach out to you via our GD response pointless. We are disappointed that effort failed.