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As the comment above explains, recruiters can do that because we let them do that. I advise people to ask for money to pass a test. The test is the problem's re
by mabynogy 8y ago
As the comment above explains, recruiters can do that because we let them do that. I advise people to ask for money to pass a test. The test is the problem's recruiter, not the candidate.
A lot of people say they are interested in programming but very few are. Programming is difficult. More and more people do that for the social position. They should do something they are good at. Most of them who persevere in computers become managers.
If a recruiter isn't able to evaluate someone by talking, he shouldn't recruit people.
- duxup 8y agoRecruiters can do ... what? I'm also not sure what you mean by "ask for money to pass a test".
- mabynogy 8y agoPay a wage for passing the tests.
- yeldarb 8y agoI'm not a recruiter. I'm a startup founder. And I'm working on hiring people I'm going to work with every day. As much as I'd like to hire every person interested in coding, unfortunately that would be detrimental to our core mission of building a product. And in the medium-run it'd be bad for everyone anyway because we'd just go out of business. I definitely learned I can't evaluate people's technical ability only by talking... which worries me. Because prior to this I expected that I would have been able to predict who would be able to code and who wouldn't. Some of my "favorite" candidates before the technical interview wouldn't have been able to complete FizzBuzz.
- mabynogy 8y agoYou should only hire those who are interested by what they do. The others are bad and won't be productive. If you can't evaluate if you can trust someone (for something), how can your business be successful? Relationships are everything in trade. Embrace the risk and pick someone. The one you trust the more.