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We put a shibboleth in our test for this reason, there's ~20 solutions up on GitHub and 80% of them are wrong. Feel free to copy them, it makes it so much easie
by morelisp 4y ago
We put a shibboleth in our test for this reason, there's ~20 solutions up on GitHub and 80% of them are wrong. Feel free to copy them, it makes it so much easier for me to grade.
- Balgair 4y agoHow many interviews are you doing?
- morelisp 4y agoAbout two a week lately, maybe 50% get offered the test after a short first-contact interview. We are sub-10 person team so this is a relatively large burden for us.
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- Majestic121 4y agoWhat does shibboleth mean to you ? It does not seem to match the original meaning of 'a signal to differentiate people from the in-group'
- morelisp 4y agoIt differentiates our test from other GitHub projects.
- masklinn 4y agoIt kinda works still: you tweak the exercise a bit to differentiate between the “in-house” version of the test and the rest. Depending on the tweak it can also make the most basic of applicants fail to find matches entirely e.g. ask for a “YcomBinator” instead of a “FizzBuzz”.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoyou're also filtering out people with the skills but who don't want to do bs unpaid busy-work for you (maybe what you're after). ethical action goes both ways
- antisthenes 4y agoThose people are free to evaluate existing GitHub solutions and pick the working one (out of the 20% ones, presumably). That's way faster than writing unpaid working code and shows you're competent AND efficient.
- morelisp 4y agoAlso, if they do that, I'll happily bring the original writer of the code to the interview to probe them on the flaws, as we hired most of them. :)