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Take-home projects are flawed as well. - The candidates could pay/ask someone else to do the assessment for them/* and prepare a presentation. - You are assum

Take-home projects are flawed as well. - The candidates could pay/ask someone else to do the assessment for them/* and prepare a presentation. - You are assuming candidates are willing to dedicate time to complete your take-home project. If your company is an unknown/smaller/boring company, good candidates won't bother to go through the process. - Phone screens and or system design white-boarding, etc... only require 45mins - 1 hour from the interviewer to assess a candidate. All interview techniques are flawed and there is no clear winner. FAANGs, for example, prefer the algo/design interviews and they do have hard data to work with, and clearly that have worked for them. That said, I think you will succeed. Very simple, straightforward site. Seemingly neat integration with Greenhouse. And clear pricing structure.

vorador 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I think it depends. When I was a hiring manager I offered candidates the choice between takehomes and a regular interview and about 50% took the takehome. The key to a good takehome was to not be too long and respect the candidates' time – just as it'd be for an in-person interview. I'm not too worried about people cheating, usually they get caught later in the process (e.g during the design interview).
- masterof0 5y ago
  Oh I see, so the take-home project would be the just the first step, not the only? That makes sense. Congrats on the launch, and wish you the best.
muzani 5y ago
Personally, I hate algo interviews and whiteboards and have a 100% fail rate on them. I can do tough Codility challenges, but in front of a person, I fall apart doing even basic questions, and freeze on something like a string to integer conversion. For the tests I've done, normally I ask if I can finish them offline, and I usually get them done pretty well. It probably takes practice to be good at whiteboarding, but I'd rather practice being good at work than interviewing. So the irony is I actually avoid applying for FAANG, and instead opt for the smaller companies that do this instead.

vorador 5y ago

Thank you for the kind words! I think it depends. When I was a hiring manager I offered candidates the choice between takehomes and a regular interview and about 50% took the takehome. The key to a good takehome was to not be too long and respect the candidates' time – just as it'd be for an in-person interview. I'm not too worried about people cheating, usually they get caught later in the process (e.g during the design interview).

masterof0 5y ago
Oh I see, so the take-home project would be the just the first step, not the only? That makes sense. Congrats on the launch, and wish you the best.

muzani 5y ago

Personally, I hate algo interviews and whiteboards and have a 100% fail rate on them. I can do tough Codility challenges, but in front of a person, I fall apart doing even basic questions, and freeze on something like a string to integer conversion. For the tests I've done, normally I ask if I can finish them offline, and I usually get them done pretty well. It probably takes practice to be good at whiteboarding, but I'd rather practice being good at work than interviewing. So the irony is I actually avoid applying for FAANG, and instead opt for the smaller companies that do this instead.