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The economics of the situation are such that hoops are rarely worth tolerating during the initial submission. If you're not Google, I don't have much time for
by glimcat 15y ago
The economics of the situation are such that hoops are rarely worth tolerating during the initial submission.
If you're not Google, I don't have much time for you until you clearly signal to me that there is actually a real job opening, with funding, which you intend to hire someone for in the immediate future, which you have determined that I might be a fit for based on the information I sent you. I don't mind jumping through a few reasonable hoops after I know it's not a waste of my time. If you don't value my time enough to spend a few seconds skimming my letter of interest and affirming to me that you have a real position open, there are plenty of other openings for developers.
- epicureanideal 15y agoThat's exactly how I was looking at it.
- bmelton 15y agoFair and appropriate. I'm clearly not Google, but I am looking to hire people who value my company the way you seem to value Google. If that isn't you, I think we'll both agree that it's best that you don't complete the code eval. You might be the best programmer in the world, but I'd rather hire a 'really good' programmer that gives a damn about what we do than a 'super awesome amazing rockstar' programmer that doesn't. That said, since somebody called and asked... No, I am not hiring.
- MrWestley 15y agoHow do you tell the difference between caring about your company and being desperate?