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At Sourcegraph we faced the same decision and decided to go with an option for paid “homework” projects. It’s working very well so far. The payment is an import
by sqs 8y ago
At Sourcegraph we faced the same decision and decided to go with an option for paid “homework” projects. It’s working very well so far. The payment is an important element of respect. More info at https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/our-project-based-interview-experiment-for-hiring-engineers https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/our-project-based-intervi....
- mplewis 8y ago100%. Paying someone or spending your time to work with them means you value their time.
- deskamess 8y agoPaying shows you have skin in the game, value the candidates time, and you are not just handing out a ton of take home projects to every one who applied. I am sure some companies have the money to do so, but generally I think that is not the norm. Off topic/curious: Is the take home project expected to be honor system 'closed book/closed internet'?