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Similar age and circumstance but not in the USA. The saddest part for me is the companies that just throw you a take-home exercise without even bothering to ph
by genezeta 5y ago
Similar age and circumstance but not in the USA.
The saddest part for me is the companies that just throw you a take-home exercise without even bothering to phone you first. You apply to a certain position and then, say a week later -or sometimes more-, they simply send you an email with some programming task to develop.
Frequently they are not small tasks but full projects which require multiple days of work. Just a few days ago: delivering a full web application to manage "map layers", with a DB, a back-end, and a "user-friendly front-end with a nice design"; testing included and all put into Docker containers, and a working demo somewhere published automatically from the repository.
And I mean, it's not just the assumption that you will spend however long it takes you on this for free, but that you will do it without even having had a simple conversation with them before.
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Anyway, what I really wanted to say was: Good luck in your search. Stay sane.
- empressplay 5y agoThis does have the effect though of filtering out candidates who were lukewarm on the position to begin with (eg they were just throwing applications around en masse) because now, yes, there is that investment to be made in proceeding with the application. And the coding test tends to become the focus of the rest of the interview process, assuming the company goes forward with it. And good companies will give fairly comprehensive feedback on your submission, so there's that.