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It's not about if the take homes are fun or not. Far too many companies have varied take home tests that can take an hour or a 40-hour work week only to be ghos
by harshalizee 4y ago
It's not about if the take homes are fun or not. Far too many companies have varied take home tests that can take an hour or a 40-hour work week only to be ghosted after submission.
I don't partake in any asymmetric interview processes, and many places are happy to let me skip it. I'm happy to sit on a zoom call with one of your engineers for a couple of hours and do whatever they want me code in that time. I'm just not into doing it on my own time with no cost to the interviewer.
- gsibble 4y agoThat's fine. We're happy to let you do that if that's how you'd prefer to show us you can code.
- ipaddr 4y agoIf you need experienced developers to show you they can code you are only going to get amateurs.
- jenscow 4y agoSo if I asked you to do to a 1-2 hour coding task, you'd only do it if I were on a zoom call with you while you did it?
- harshalizee 4y agoYup! The interviewer can see my thought process. I can also evaluate my peers and ask questions about the work. The interviewer can also see how easy or cumbersome it is to set up the environment and code in the allotted time. Win-win.
- jenscow 4y agoIf I was hiring a junior, perhaps that would have some use.
- naniwaduni 4y agoIt's not about what's useful to you. Not everything has to be about you. It's acknowledgement that the interviewee's time is worth something (approximately about as much as dev time) and that you're willing to pay for it.
- yupper32 4y agoYes. Put in the time with me to show you're serious. Otherwise you could mass spam candidates, most of which you don't actually care about.