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First, to answer your question: email works well for most people, its ubiquitous, and its been used long before other services were available. Second, you may

First, to answer your question: email works well for most people, its ubiquitous, and its been used long before other services were available. Second, you may want to rethink your choice. I've no tolerance for take home tests nowadays and I would politely thank you for the time in interviewing me, explain that I do not have time to do that, but that I would be more than willing to whiteboard a problem that you have today. If I could not successfully redirect them, then I would simply opt-out of the process at that point. I don't know how many people here would do take home tests but it can't be all that many. Maybe you are trying to hire folks that are not regulars here. Its something to consider.

b20000 4y ago
you have 3 months to waste grinding leetcode but can’t do a small relevant assignment in the comfort of your home which you don’t need to grind leetcode for?
- OrangeMonkey 4y ago
  Yes, I refuse unpaid “homework” for a job I don’t work at regardless of how it’s couched. The more folks who put up with this nonsense the more pervasive it becomes.
  - b20000 4y ago
    i rather do that than grind leetcode and receive zero respect for my years of experience and skills. you write the code, you own it. if they want to use it, demand payment to sign the rights over.
yuppie_scum 4y ago
Message size and format restraints imposed by the email security layers have caused me issues sending and receiving candidate deliverables in the past. Email is not secure anyway, if OP is so paranoid about exposing an IP surely s/he will want some more dedicated data transfer option
collectedparts 4y ago
Did you see the beginning of my post? > I used to be against takehome evaluations (I thought companies showed the most respect to candidates by being present during the evaluation), but we've recently had a few candidates say they prefer it as they think it gives them a better chance to show their skills. We developed this as an option based on candidate demand. Re: > Maybe you are trying to hire folks that are not regulars here. I knew when making this post that the HN crowd is pretty opposed to takehomes. Again, I was too. But I've been meeting more good engineers (candidates) who actively prefer the takehome format. And I'm very sympathetic to it: your daily work won't be a "quiz" with someone over your shoulder or even a bunch of whiteboarding. It will be asynchronously coding.

b20000 4y ago

you have 3 months to waste grinding leetcode but can’t do a small relevant assignment in the comfort of your home which you don’t need to grind leetcode for?

OrangeMonkey 4y ago
Yes, I refuse unpaid “homework” for a job I don’t work at regardless of how it’s couched. The more folks who put up with this nonsense the more pervasive it becomes.
- b20000 4y ago
  i rather do that than grind leetcode and receive zero respect for my years of experience and skills. you write the code, you own it. if they want to use it, demand payment to sign the rights over.

yuppie_scum 4y ago

Message size and format restraints imposed by the email security layers have caused me issues sending and receiving candidate deliverables in the past. Email is not secure anyway, if OP is so paranoid about exposing an IP surely s/he will want some more dedicated data transfer option

collectedparts 4y ago

Did you see the beginning of my post? > I used to be against takehome evaluations (I thought companies showed the most respect to candidates by being present during the evaluation), but we've recently had a few candidates say they prefer it as they think it gives them a better chance to show their skills. We developed this as an option based on candidate demand. Re: > Maybe you are trying to hire folks that are not regulars here. I knew when making this post that the HN crowd is pretty opposed to takehomes. Again, I was too. But I've been meeting more good engineers (candidates) who actively prefer the takehome format. And I'm very sympathetic to it: your daily work won't be a "quiz" with someone over your shoulder or even a bunch of whiteboarding. It will be asynchronously coding.