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Hiring programmers with a take-home test
- duxup 7y agoI got my first coding job from a take home test. I found talking about my code and thought process was far easier than the typical trivia, and I covered miles more technical ground with them talking about my own choices than some rando incomplete hypothetical someone might ask me. A year later I realized the questions they asked about my work were about topics that had they asked me point blank....I wouldn't have known what to say (regarding a given pattern or such), but in my own way I had shown I was thinking about them / understood them with my own code. It was something we could sync up on only through me coding it out in longer form than a whiteboard.