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I wouldn't offer a take-home task to anyone who wasn't already on my short-list. When I recruited interns at job fairs there were plenty that were just passing

• paxys 7y ago
  And how do you come up with this short list? That's the point of the exercise. The order is usually: Resume review -> take home exercise -> phone interview -> onsite interview -> offer.
  • zerr 7y ago
    How significant is that take home? I immediately reject such requests of unpaid work if it takes more than 10-15 minutes. If in your case, you demand allocating more time for that step, consider adding additional filter (requiring 10-15 mins) after the resume review. And then redirect [part of] resources (money) from the onsite part to pay for that take home task. Another red flag I see in your process - asking for allocating time before even talking to a human being - that would be another reason for an immediate rejection. Consider moving your phone part before the take home task.
  • cowsandmilk 7y ago
    Every company that has given me a take home exercise gave me a phone screen first. I don't think your order is at all typical. When there is something before the phone interview, it is a coding assessment; these are generally different from a take home assignment in that they are generally timed and automatically scored, e.g. you hit start and have two hours and then a computer scores you. With take home exercises, I've always had engineers at the company read my code and discuss it with me.
• Balgair 7y ago
  >When I recruited interns at job fairs there were plenty that were just passing resumes out to whomever would take them. Isn't that the point of a resume? What am I missing?