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You know what else takes a lot of time and it’s a pain? Doing the dumb tests and assignments.

• tluyben2 7y ago
  Exactly :) This is a good response to OP ; you cannot be bothered because law blah blah blah but you can bother us with inane little tests and bullshit? If you don't see anything wrong with that...
  • onion2k 7y ago
    The test we give people is a straight forward mock of the thing they'd do daily if they got the job, with a ton of scope for candidates to show why they're good. It's as close to a real world task as we can get. There are no silly algorithm tests or whiteboard coding tasks. We simply ask candidates to demonstrate they can do what we're hiring for. Also, every job ad we write explains what the hiring process is. Anyone who thinks the test is stupid presumably doesn't apply.
    • tluyben2 7y ago
      That sounds fine to me, but the issue was your comment that 'it is not straightforward' to compensate for time people spend on tests (good or bad tests; yours sound the good kind, kudos to you); if it is not straightforward then maybe find another way of doing it without them. But for sure, it's not simple and definitely things that are close to what the job is would be kind of perfect; I would imagine, also kind of hard to come with.