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For my previous job I spent around a week to build a simple microservice from scratch, with login, jwt, email notification etc. - it's still not a full app of c
by xab9 8y ago
For my previous job I spent around a week to build a simple microservice from scratch, with login, jwt, email notification etc. - it's still not a full app of course, but it was very very time consuming (it was a bit out of my field), considering that I did not spend that time with family, hobby et cetera.
I know noone forces me to do it, but back then I really had high hopes for that job. Nowdays the maximum I'm willing to spend with an entry app is two to four days but deep in my heart I still find it a bit too much, but I still prefer this over live coding sessions in front of a bunch of random devs.
- gaius 8y agoWhere do you get 2-4 days to work on an entirely speculative project?
- xab9 8y agoWeekends, plus you may want to take a day off. Otherwise chip it off from your evenings. 7pm to 11pm through a week does the job.
- gaius 8y agoThese are unreasonable asks for just an interview. A read of their CV and a 30-minute phone screen, maybe two with different people, is all that is needed to determine if a candidate is worth bringing onsite, unless the interviewer and their company is utterly incompetent.
- xab9 8y agoI share your opinion Gaius, but the recruiters seem to think otherwise. In the last year I've been to seven interviews (by all standards I am considered a senior dev with an appealing pedigree) and this is not something unexpected at all. The worst is that when they ask you to take three or five days off and work with the future team to see how you fit in (not for free though). I'm not too enthusiastic about it, but I already did it twice.
- gaius 8y agoCan I ask which geography you are in? I am in England and that would be excessive here. I think the most I have experienced is 3 phone screens and two full but non-contiguous day’s of on-sites.
- xab9 8y agoHungary, but I had two non-hungarian interview processes as well, one for Berlin and another for a multinational company (for the Hungarian office though, but six interviews out of seven was held in English), same experience. The latter one had a fairly complex entry task which took me three full days and I had six interviews after that - during the seventh I gave up and told them we are not looking for each other here.
- gaius 8y agoI think a company that did that here would have a very hard time getting candidates... at least for now
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoIf I take a day off, I am now essentially paying to be able to take their test. Absolutely NOT.