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We ask candidates to solve remotely with Google Docs Google Docs are horrible coding environments. In fact, anything besides the candidate's native editing en
by kafkaesq 9y ago
We ask candidates to solve remotely with Google Docs
Google Docs are horrible coding environments. In fact, anything besides the candidate's native editing environment makes for an obtuse and off-putting experience, all around. I mean, yeah, the candidate can suck it up and make it work if they felt they "had" to. But on balance it's just unnecessary mental gymnastics -- and completely avoidable source of awkwardness and all around unpleasantness in the interview experience.
- deathanatos 9y ago> In fact, anything besides the candidate's native editing environment makes for an obtuse and off-putting experience, all around. And how would I use that, as an interviewer, in a phone screen, realistically? (I don't believe that I could — reliably — get them into a Google Hangout, for example.) (We used https://coderpad.io/ https://coderpad.io/ ; it was alright, and certainly better than Google Docs.)