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Unfortunately I have done take-home assignments and then been ghosted by companies. If I am a candidate I don't know if you are going to ghost me or review my s
by confidantlake 6y ago
Unfortunately I have done take-home assignments and then been ghosted by companies. If I am a candidate I don't know if you are going to ghost me or review my submission. It is tough because I do think this is a better signal than whiteboarding, but there is an asymmetric time commitment.
- 11thEarlOfMar 6y agoI can't speak for other companies, but the point at which candidates do the programming task is after they've come in and met 3 or 4 of us. It would be really awkward in my opinion to then not have them back after they've completed it. By that point, we really want to have them in and we hope they do really well. We have 4-5 engineers in the code review for 1-2 hours. That time more than matches the candidate's commitment, which I think is equitable.
- confidantlake 6y agoI like your approach. Seems to solve the async time commitment problem. Also the candidate doesn't have to do the takehome if it seems like an obvious mismatch when they come in and meet the team.