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These are great points. How do you feel about take-homes that have an enforced cap at 60-120 minutes to try to remove the competition on time investment? Do y
by stephenhogsten 4y ago
These are great points.
How do you feel about take-homes that have an enforced cap at 60-120 minutes to try to remove the competition on time investment?
Do you learn more than it's possible to learn asynchronously? Most take-homes only have candidates write code, but it's possible to understand a candidate more deeply by asking questions about, for example, how they approached the decisions they made.
- kevmo314 4y agoHow would such a cap be enforced? If it's due 120 minutes from the time it's given, it's no longer a take home interview, it's a remote interview.
- smegsicle 4y agoand however it was enforced, it would increase the stress a great deal
- stephenhogsten 4y agoTrue. More stress than an untimed take-home, but I would think less stress than a normal interview (for most engineers, at least).
- ghaff 4y agoAnd the reality is that a lot of/most people interviewing in those type of situations arre very well familiar with time-boxed exams at school. (And even with take homes the reality of final exams as I recall is that you mostly didn't have the hours in the day to spend an outsized amount of time on one course.)
- inanutshellus 4y agoPresumably the difference is that the interviewee gets to choose when to start the clock.
- stephenhogsten 4y agoThat's what I had in mind. You would need a tool to enforce it. At that point "take-home" may not be the best name anymore, but "remote interview" just sounds like it's an interview over video. Maybe "async interview"?
- filoleg 4y agoIt is already a thing. I had a 2hr take-home before that was utilizing hackerrank. But it wasn't a leetcode-style one (which are common), it was a skeleton of a React app, and I had to implement certain methods to tie it all up together. The timer would start ticking from the moment I click "begin", and it will warn you that the timer will start after you attempt clicking (so that you don't trigger the timer by accident).
- ghaff 4y agoIt doesn't need to be proctored. It would be easy to start a remote clock and the solution needs to be in by x minutes after the start. It can even be pretty generous. The idea is presumably not to see how fast they can sprint but just put some time-boxing in place so some people aren't taking days. People can get help of course but that's going to be the case absent effectively a remote proctored assignment. And now you're back to effectively in-person.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> People can get help of course but that's going to be the case absent effectively a remote proctored assignment. And now you're back to effectively in-person. I would vastly prefer an "in-person" interview in which I wasn't expected to speak to the interviewer to the in-person interviews we actually have. There is a world of difference.
- ghaff 4y agoYou don't want to ask questions?
- thaumasiotes 4y agoWhy would I want that?
- ghaff 4y agoBecause it's an opportunity to learn more about the company beyond what's on their website? Honestly, if I interviewed someone and they had no interest in asking any questions, that's probably an easy reject.
- lenzm 4y agoI have used https://takehome.io/ https://takehome.io/. The timer starts when they check out the repo containing the project and instructions.