Recruiting is actually an incredibly expensive and painful process both for companies and for hirees. We definitely need some way to automate this to make it easier for both parties.<p>When you think about it, there&#x27;s a lot of waste in the process of looking for a job. You have to search through a bunch of job ads that all say very similar things. You have to go and tell each one you&#x27;re interested in the same things about you, and if you&#x27;re a programmer you get put through a variety of practical tests all attempting to figure out the same thing: whether you&#x27;re good or not.<p>If a person&#x27;s relevant attributes could be captured one time and used for every company they apply to, that would save a TON of people&#x27;s time. Company employees wouldn&#x27;t have to spend as much time (away from doing product-related things) peppering candidates with questions, and candidates wouldn&#x27;t have to spend so much time being peppered with questions.<p>Any attempt to do this is a step in the right direction. I don&#x27;t know anything about Codility, but is sounds like they&#x27;re trying to do a piece of this. In that respect, I don&#x27;t get the same feeling you do that something is really wrong about this. I do, though, think there&#x27;s a danger that people use this kind of tool wrong and judge people wrongly because of it, but this misjudgment problem already exists.