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Well, if you hire them to _just_ write code, you can do that on take-home (with the risk of hiring a copy-paste-artist). However, if you are looking for a team
by ng55QPSK 6y ago
Well, if you hire them to _just_ write code, you can do that on take-home (with the risk of hiring a copy-paste-artist).
However, if you are looking for a team member that can communicate what she does and how she does it, then you need some interaction.
- dgellow 6y agoWhen you have a take-home exercise you still have a face-to-face interview where you interact with candidates. And you can talk about the code that the person wrote and dig into it if you think that's relevant. The only difference is that people being interviewed are given more control over their schedule and environment when working on the exercise. IMHO companies who do mostly whiteboard or live coding exercises are passing on some very good candidates who don't perform well in this specific setup but are great collaborators.