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Doesn’t a little app seem like a lot of unpaid work to ask of prospective employees? I’m not so sure about "geek jock" but I do happen to be a good test-taker.
by alanh 16y ago
Doesn’t a little app seem like a lot of unpaid work to ask of prospective employees?
I’m not so sure about "geek jock" but I do happen to be a good test-taker. (I assumed most nerds were, though.)
- cantastoria 16y agoActually we've tried giving them a choice. Most chose to do the assignment rather have to go through a high pressure interview answering whiteboard questions. We're not asking them to solve problems that could possibly be used in any of our products so they don't feel taken advantage of and it's usually something fairly simple (e.g. design a parking lot management system). All in all they probably spend as much time writing the small sample app as they would in the typical all-day interview loop.