What I’ve learned from giving and receiving technical challenges over the years. Don’t. The only thing these challenges do is determine whether someone can do

What I’ve learned from giving and receiving technical challenges over the years. Don’t. The only thing these challenges do is determine whether someone can do your coding challenge. No indicator at all about their ability to actually solve your business problems. Instead, give the applicants an offline evaluation solving something within your actual dev/testing environment. Pay them for their time. 2-4 hours. The best interview process I ever had culminated in me logging in to a testing system and working on what I believe was an actual problem at some point in the companies history. The IDE and DB was there and ready to go with some docs and a ReadME. They told me ahead of time what rate they would pay me and that they would pay up to 4 hours. If I decided to spend more it was on me. And I had 4 business days to do it.