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Honestly this sounds terrible. I would never take a proctored test for an interview. Might as well just send the company a copy of your grades from some compute

Honestly this sounds terrible. I would never take a proctored test for an interview. Might as well just send the company a copy of your grades from some computer tech class in school, because that is basically what you're proposing. I will happily spend a few hours preparing an open source project and presenting what I've created as part of a final interview. Relying on testing alone is going to get you good test takers. A great team needs a mix of of skills- technical experts, business minded folks, and motivated leaders. I don't have the magic answer but I'm sure that proctored testing is the wrong answer.

RandomOpinion 9y ago
> I would never take a proctored test for an interview. ... Relying on testing alone is going to get you good test takers. A conventional interview is basically a set of tests already. A conventional whiteboard coding interview segment is a proctored test, with the interviewer serving double duty as the proctor. This proposal aims to reduce the stress by having an impartial proctor instead of an interviewer looking over one's shoulder as you code.