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"Employed candidates have no problem taking a day off (or two when they live far) for a full round of on-site interviews." Oh. I thought I was an employed cand

• kasey_junk 10y ago
  He meant, it is a common phenomenon in our industry to have full or multi-day interviews and people don't say "you'll only be able to hire unemployed people for that". Programming assignments are usually more flexible for employed people than interview days. But they aren't a panacea. They are hard to design and if you haven't switched to an objective rubric for measuring them, they can be just as subjective as interviews. That said, I whole heartily agree with using programing projects instead of interviews.