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I've found well-designed take home coding tests to be a great way of assessing potential hires during a recruitment process. I've also found that take home test
by mjfisher 7y ago
I've found well-designed take home coding tests to be a great way of assessing potential hires during a recruitment process. I've also found that take home tests can be really hard to manage for a growing team; lost emails from HR are common, incomplete submissions are returned ad-hoc via zipped attachments and google drive uploads, and reviews and feedback from your own engineers are often difficult to keep track of.
I created Candidate Code to make it trivially simple to issue your existing take home coding tests through Git, collect the results and review them collaboratively. Feedback is welcome.
- mjfisher 7y agoAlso, because take home tests can be a controversial subject: I think they're a great way to evaluate some skills, but they're not the only way. There's pros and cons to every technique, for both candidates and the hiring organization. I'm personally also a big fan of pairing style interview questions (remote or otherwise). A lot of the bad experiences people have with take home coding challenges seem to be caused by poor design as much as anything else. Mostly, I think if you design your hiring process to respect your candidates it's difficult to go too far wrong.