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I had that exact same experience with milo.com. Small world.

• thaumasiotes 6y ago
  Well, I found their challenge because they posted it to HN. Everyone inside Milo seemed to think that their hiring process was hugely better than what happened elsewhere, including by producing better hires. But the approach -- set a difficult challenge instead of an easy challenge, such that, if someone passes the challenge, you will almost certainly hire them -- still seems to be vanishingly rare.
  • pmiller2 6y ago
    Oh, was that their logic? I don’t even recall if they actually interviewed me, despite passing their challenge. As I recall, I was rejected for not enough experience.
    • thaumasiotes 6y ago
      I find that hard to believe, since I was hired despite experience totalling less than a year of internship. However, there might have been external reasons. I was hired after they were acquired by eBay, and apparently they had preexisting approval for a certain number of hires that year that they didn't end up meeting. If you were earlier or later (pretty likely!), maybe they might not have been so cavalier.
      • pmiller2 6y ago
        That could be. I could also be misremembering. In any case, I definitely wasn’t offered a job, despite solving the problem in exactly the same way you did. I’m not complaining. Who knows? Getting rejected might have been for the best.