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I'd be okay with "homework" if either 1) it's truly time bounded via programmatic cutoffs or 2) it's paid. For time bounding, I love the time estimates they gi
by sf_rob 4y ago
I'd be okay with "homework" if either 1) it's truly time bounded via programmatic cutoffs or 2) it's paid.
For time bounding, I love the time estimates they give you for a decent sized problem. A major company told me that a feature extraction problem + report should only take 4 hours. They provided me with some large CSVs representing DB tables (which contained some malformed data) and wanted a brief report back.
That's unrealistic in 4 hours even for a great performer. Then you spend the weekend on it and they won't give you feedback on it because of the suits in legal.
It's disrespectful.
- dudul 4y agoThat's interesting because as a hiring manager I get a lot of push back on our take-home since it does cut you off after a certain amount of time. Our take home shouldn't take more than 90/120minutes, we give candidates up to 4 hours just because some really like to polish, but then that's it. I don't want them to spend more of their spare time on that. The feedback is usually "well, but I want to make sure I can take all the time I need!".
- sf_rob 4y agoI think that’s fair psychologically, but as long as I’m on a level playing field I’d rather have a reasonable upper bound or I’m going to feel forced to overly polish to stand out.