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Is there a business opportunity here? If Amazon wants complete control over the interview experience, maybe there's room for a service that rents out small off
by krishicks 10y ago
Is there a business opportunity here?
If Amazon wants complete control over the interview experience, maybe there's room for a service that rents out small office spaces, like ZipCar or AirBnB, but for a desk/small office with just a Chromebook, for this express purpose.
Amazon or any other company could say they need a desk close to some place on some date, and the service could make one available that meets the requirements (laptop, multiple camera feeds, etc).
Or maybe this already exists?
- Tomdarkness 10y agoThis is something similar, except they run test centers rather than just renting out office space for that use: https://home.pearsonvue.com/ https://home.pearsonvue.com/
- djb_hackernews 10y agoProctorU does that for people without webcams/compatible systems.
- moolcool 10y agoI don't know if it exists for interviews, but there are definitely firms which offer facilities and services for test taking. I think it's quite common for certification and distance education
- tylerpachal 10y agoA friend of mine interviewed for a tech position with the government (Canada). After the first couple screening interviews the subsequent interviews were all held in a hotel room. Similar to your suggestion, the hotel was picked so it was close to the candidate's house, and the interviewer supplied laptop and such.
- a3n 10y agoPersonally, I'd feel a huge creep factor interviewing next to a bed.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoCasting couch?
- inerte 10y agoAlready exists, lots of certifications are handled this way. There are "test centers", where multiple types of tests are taken, and the computer is severely limited. The "disruptor" here is ProctorU and similar services. They are cheaper, generally more convenient, easier to schedule and manage. Maybe you can come up with a better "test center" (perhaps a van?) but most people don't care at all about what ProctorU does with their computer.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Maybe you can come up with a better "test center" (perhaps a van?) but most people don't care at all about what ProctorU does with their computer. Most people might not, but I suspect many of the best people for many tech, especially -- but also many other knowledge work jobs -- do care, quite intensely.
- vtlynch 10y agoI think the best people in tech are probably not put into this interview/test situation.
- ubernostrum 10y agoDon't be so sure. I don't know whether I qualify as "best in tech", but: last year I was approached by a large company which uses Django, and which solicited me to apply specifically because they wanted a Django committer on staff. In other words, I was absolutely a known quantity for them. They still shoved me in their Fizzbuzz phone-screen funnel. Spoiler: for that, among other reasons, I stopped trying to follow up with them. This does not seem to be an unusual practice for large companies. Even when they're recruiting specific people who they know and initiate the contact with, they still set these awful "prove you're not one of the impostor rabble we say are beating down our doors" hoops for people to jump through.
- vtlynch 10y agoYou are right, Im sure most people, even the best, have to deal with this at some point.
- maverick_iceman 10y agoETS.
- Spooky23 10y agoPrometric has done this forever. I took the GRE at a place like this in 2001.