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This is the format at almost every single company these days. 1. Initial phone screen with recuriter - 30 mins 2. Phone screen(s) - 1-4 hr 3. (optional) phon

This is the format at almost every single company these days. 1. Initial phone screen with recuriter - 30 mins 2. Phone screen(s) - 1-4 hr 3. (optional) phone live-coding on coderpad - 1 hr 4. Take home assignment - 4 - 8 hrs 5. Full Day onsite interview - 2-3 days if traveling. Rinse and Repeat for atleast ten interviews minimum you are looking at almost 1 month of pure interview time. Add on practise time for algorithms and puzzles.

user5994461 9y ago
This is stupid. They should always do the take home test first or after a short phone call. It's easier and saves everyone time.
- tzakrajs 9y ago
  Part of the interview process is selling the organization and its people. Maybe companies prioritize phone screenings and interviews first to steer the process and educate the candidate about the company and the position. Maybe candidates would be less likely to try the coding project if they hadn't built some rapport with an employee.
  - rozenmd 9y ago
    Also need to figure out if the candidate is a lizard person - having a real life conversation with them about the company is a good start.
    - tzakrajs 9y ago
      I will also add that lizard people require a lot of electricity to keep them at the optimal temperature.
- exDM69 9y ago
  > They should always do the take home test first or after a short phone call. Absolutely not. If most applicants need to do 4-8 hours worth of homework, they'll never have the time to review the results for every applicant. And making me do 4-8 hours of work without getting it reviewed thoroughly and getting personal feedback is not valuing my time. In the process above there already was a screen sharing coding test. Adding the homework on top is redundant. You should be able to tell if someone can code in one hour of screen sharing, but you can't really tell if someone is mediocre or top notch from a single homework assignment. Only once have I been given a homework from an interview and it was a solid 10-20 hours worth of work. I refused to do the work and I got the offer anyway, but I turned it down in favor of another offer.
  - user5994461 9y ago
    The homework is 1 or 2 hours for the candidates and it only takes 10 minutes to review for the employer. It's much lighter to schedule than a phone interview that requires a 1 hour time slot with everyone during working hours. Ignore homework that takes 10 hours to do. It's abusive and it only selects desperate people with no family.
dylan-m 9y ago
This is fed by a weird delusion amidst tech people that all their problems (including hiring employees) are somehow incredibly unique, and that they occupy some special magical world that nobody else has ever dealt with before, and they're so smart for figuring it out. But the fact is they just suck at hiring people, and they should look around and think about how everyone else does it. There are plenty of fields where hiring the right person is serious business, and they seem to get on just fine with considerably less bullshit than this.

user5994461 9y ago

This is stupid. They should always do the take home test first or after a short phone call. It's easier and saves everyone time.

tzakrajs 9y ago
Part of the interview process is selling the organization and its people. Maybe companies prioritize phone screenings and interviews first to steer the process and educate the candidate about the company and the position. Maybe candidates would be less likely to try the coding project if they hadn't built some rapport with an employee.
- rozenmd 9y ago
  Also need to figure out if the candidate is a lizard person - having a real life conversation with them about the company is a good start.
  - tzakrajs 9y ago
    I will also add that lizard people require a lot of electricity to keep them at the optimal temperature.
exDM69 9y ago
> They should always do the take home test first or after a short phone call. Absolutely not. If most applicants need to do 4-8 hours worth of homework, they'll never have the time to review the results for every applicant. And making me do 4-8 hours of work without getting it reviewed thoroughly and getting personal feedback is not valuing my time. In the process above there already was a screen sharing coding test. Adding the homework on top is redundant. You should be able to tell if someone can code in one hour of screen sharing, but you can't really tell if someone is mediocre or top notch from a single homework assignment. Only once have I been given a homework from an interview and it was a solid 10-20 hours worth of work. I refused to do the work and I got the offer anyway, but I turned it down in favor of another offer.
- user5994461 9y ago
  The homework is 1 or 2 hours for the candidates and it only takes 10 minutes to review for the employer. It's much lighter to schedule than a phone interview that requires a 1 hour time slot with everyone during working hours. Ignore homework that takes 10 hours to do. It's abusive and it only selects desperate people with no family.

dylan-m 9y ago

This is fed by a weird delusion amidst tech people that all their problems (including hiring employees) are somehow incredibly unique, and that they occupy some special magical world that nobody else has ever dealt with before, and they're so smart for figuring it out. But the fact is they just suck at hiring people, and they should look around and think about how everyone else does it. There are plenty of fields where hiring the right person is serious business, and they seem to get on just fine with considerably less bullshit than this.