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> The idea that I can take 4 hours of your time for a half-day whiteboard interview but not a "do a simple task that should take 30 minutes at your leisure" is

by gyulai 5y ago

> The idea that I can take 4 hours of your time for a half-day whiteboard interview but not a "do a simple task that should take 30 minutes at your leisure" is weird. It's really not that weird at all. If you give me 4 hours of face-to-face time 1:1 with one of your engineers, I have a guarantee that you value my time as highly as you value your engineers'. If you give me 30 mins of "homework", I have no guarantee at all, that you don't have 100 other candidates in this stage of the interview process, and one of your engineers is going to dismiss my application after 5 mins of looking at what I've produced and give me no chance of responding to any judgment they are making that I disagree with. For example I once got "I don't like the fact that you use semicolons in Python where they're optional". If someone thinks that's a valid reason not to hire me, I want the right to face my accuser.

Spivak 5y ago
Damn, this reads like someone who's been hurt before. I can assure you we don't give two shits about style or picky shit like that. Hell we're not even really reviewing it beyond, "okay cool they can actually write some code" and if they choose to show off then great!
- noasaservice 5y ago
  Considering none of us know you, where you work, or anything; you're taking these commentaries about hiring policies very personally. Many of us have been through terrible hiring practices. And we're sharing them here. And when you give examples or critiques, we're critiquing them right back. I've been around the block. I've done lots of interviews in tech. So have others here (naturally!). I've noped out of many for huge semaphore-sized red flags. But the point stands - I'm not going to do "homework" without getting paid for it. I would much rather a sit-down with a fellow engineer and talk out problems. That shows the company is also willing to put time in as well.

by gyulai 5y ago

Spivak 5y ago

Damn, this reads like someone who's been hurt before. I can assure you we don't give two shits about style or picky shit like that. Hell we're not even really reviewing it beyond, "okay cool they can actually write some code" and if they choose to show off then great!

noasaservice 5y ago
Considering none of us know you, where you work, or anything; you're taking these commentaries about hiring policies very personally. Many of us have been through terrible hiring practices. And we're sharing them here. And when you give examples or critiques, we're critiquing them right back. I've been around the block. I've done lots of interviews in tech. So have others here (naturally!). I've noped out of many for huge semaphore-sized red flags. But the point stands - I'm not going to do "homework" without getting paid for it. I would much rather a sit-down with a fellow engineer and talk out problems. That shows the company is also willing to put time in as well.