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Hate these long initial applications. You spend an hour filling these nonsensical questions and no one even takes a look at your application. I will only answer

Hate these long initial applications. You spend an hour filling these nonsensical questions and no one even takes a look at your application. I will only answer these questions and write essays if there is a promise of response on the other end. Tech interviews have become anything goes free for alls for companies, who think they can do as they please.

colechristensen 5y ago
Get yourself in the position of being able to say no to interviews. I have declined plenty that were unashamed to ask me to do 8-20 hours of work for their tests. At this point if a company is asking me to do more than an hour more effort than they’re willing to spend with their own employees, it’s an automatic no.
- dominotw 5y ago
  These aren't even questions after you start interviewing with them. They want you to write these before they even consider you as a candidate. This company wants me to answer these ridiculous questions for a privilege to interview with them( looks like they do wordpress themes and plugins, from what i gathered.) > How do you use our products, or their competitors? How would you improve one of them? > Tell us about an interesting app you’ve worked on. What made it interesting? > Tell us about the hardest technical problem you had to solve. Any problem is okay – a compelling architectural decision, a hard-to-track bug, a performance or scaling issue, etc. Please outline the problem as you would describe it to a colleague > Tell us about your production experience with two different technologies that are solving a similar problem. It could be two different programming languages, two different frameworks, two different databases, services, etc. > Why Automattic and why now? What kind of people are even coming up with this kind of stuff. They don't even have the minimum decency to put in the salary range if they are expecting people to write these essays even before interviewing them. So tired of this nonsense. Just when you thought you've seen the worst. Someone figures out a way to make this even worse.

colechristensen 5y ago

Get yourself in the position of being able to say no to interviews. I have declined plenty that were unashamed to ask me to do 8-20 hours of work for their tests. At this point if a company is asking me to do more than an hour more effort than they’re willing to spend with their own employees, it’s an automatic no.

dominotw 5y ago
These aren't even questions after you start interviewing with them. They want you to write these before they even consider you as a candidate. This company wants me to answer these ridiculous questions for a privilege to interview with them( looks like they do wordpress themes and plugins, from what i gathered.) > How do you use our products, or their competitors? How would you improve one of them? > Tell us about an interesting app you’ve worked on. What made it interesting? > Tell us about the hardest technical problem you had to solve. Any problem is okay – a compelling architectural decision, a hard-to-track bug, a performance or scaling issue, etc. Please outline the problem as you would describe it to a colleague > Tell us about your production experience with two different technologies that are solving a similar problem. It could be two different programming languages, two different frameworks, two different databases, services, etc. > Why Automattic and why now? What kind of people are even coming up with this kind of stuff. They don't even have the minimum decency to put in the salary range if they are expecting people to write these essays even before interviewing them. So tired of this nonsense. Just when you thought you've seen the worst. Someone figures out a way to make this even worse.