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> you’re about to dedicate up to 5 working days on this task, with the potential for them to ghost you straight afterwards I often give companies a list of op
by djsumdog 7y ago
> you’re about to dedicate up to 5 working days on this task, with the potential for them to ghost you straight afterwards
I often give companies a list of open current open source tasks I'm working on. Pick one and I'll complete it for your interview. Every singe company turned me down, except one, who just accepted one of the tools I had on Github and examined that.
- wheresvic1 7y agoThis is absolutely brilliant - I think that this is the way to go for hiring tests! Either that or you get paid for the hours you put in.
- 0xffff2 7y agoOne of the biggest challenges I have as an interviewer is setting up a framework that allows me to compare candidates fairly. Most candidates don't have a list of open source tasks they're working on. If I have three candidates who completed my standard interview code sample and your open source pull request, it's much easier to spot the differences in the other three candidates.
- atoav 7y agoThis is a very good idea! I could even imagine something like this could be a socially acceptable way to test candidates, with thw benefit of helping open source