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Interviewing is one of the unsolved problems in computer science. I think take-home assignments have their own tradeoffs such as time investment by the engineer
by nlowell 5y ago
Interviewing is one of the unsolved problems in computer science. I think take-home assignments have their own tradeoffs such as time investment by the engineer or the (I'm assuming) increased chance of cheating. You also still run into the question of what a standard take-home assignment should look like, and how to prevent take-homes from becoming a game in the exact same way leetcode has become a game.
- thunkshift1 5y agoWhat is ‘cheating’ in a take home assignment? Its an open book exam
- jhugg 5y agoSomeone helps you? Or does it for you? Or you copy a solution from online?
- nlowell 5y agoYeah, you pay someone to take the assignment for you. Which, by the way, there's already a market out there where people are paying others to interview in their place (deceiving the company). I think video interviews are less cheatable than unsupervised assignments but still cheatable since bad actors can hire people to impersonate them. Anyways, whether or not these would be genuine significant risks in your hiring pipeline is pretty company-dependent.
- nlowell 5y agoPaying someone to take the assignment for you and secure you the job. People are out there doing this already, though I wouldn't recommend it :)