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I agree with this sentiment. We offer candidates a choice of initial step before an onsite interview: - A short phone interview using a collaborative editing t
by conover 8y ago
I agree with this sentiment. We offer candidates a choice of initial step before an onsite interview:
- A short phone interview using a collaborative editing tool like CoderPad.
- An example project they can complete independently and turn in. We've designed this project to take about 2 hours to complete.
Almost universally, candidates choose the "take home" project option.
- Bartweiss 8y ago> We've designed this project to take about 2 hours to complete. Then you've got it right. It's good to see people admit whiteboard interviews are a crummy system, I think you can learn way more from X hours of "do a task on a real computer with the internet" than you can from the same X hours of "do algorithms work on a whiteboard". The objection, for me at least, is to "do 10*X hours of work on a real computer". It's bizarrely common to massively scale up the time investment when moving to this sort of task. And the answer is so easy - just don't do that!