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Submit your resume via git? What is there not to like here? It will weed out a lot of the nohopers, without making the decent people feel like they are jumping
by frossie 16y ago
Submit your resume via git? What is there not to like here?
It will weed out a lot of the nohopers, without making the decent people feel like they are jumping through unreasonable hoops. I like it.
- cookiecaper 16y agoI think that those hoops are unreasonable. When you give tests like this, you need to be respectful of the applicant's time; they all have others things to do and other opportunities to consider, it is incredibly arrogant to demand anything that takes more than a couple of hours imo unless you are both very serious about placement. The refactoring of the code is probably OK; I haven't looked at the code so I don't know for sure, but writing a Ruby script with the GitHub API and the second task is a bit over the top. They should choose one or the other; if an applicant can refactor code well, he should be able to know how to use libraries, and if an applicant can write clean code to do the GitHub task, then he should know how to refactor. No need for both.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThey're just front-loading and automating the 1st pass of candidate screening (normally something that might be done in a phone screen). I think this is perfectly legitimate. For anyone who is seriously applying for a position this isn't a significantly greater burden compared to the normal multi-stage application process at any other company. For people who are just blanket spamming their tarted up resume to anyone and everyone hoping for a lucky hit, this is a lot more work in comparison. But I think that's a feature not a bug.