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I much prefer the take home test to a live coding exercise. Different strokes for different folks.

• TulliusCicero 4y ago
  Take home tests create a perverse incentive, live coding interviews don't. Specifically, a company can blast out a bajillion take home tests to a bajillion candidates for one position without a care in the world, but for live coding interviews it requires their own employee's time, so they're incentivized to only do it with candidates they're serious about.
  • PainfullyNormal 4y ago
    As an interviewee, I don't care. Most take home tests aren't that difficult and don't take that much time. And it's coding, which is much more enjoyable than meetings. Plus, there's the fact that I don't do well in live coding interviews. I get a version of "stage fright" where my mind goes blank and thinking becomes impossible for a bit. I don't experience it anytime on the job, either. Just in interviews.
    • TulliusCicero 4y ago
      > As an interviewee, I don't care. You don't care whether you have almost no effective chance to actually get a job? Yeah, something tells me you're not being entirely truthful here.
      • PainfullyNormal 4y ago
        I'll try again using shorter words. > You don't care whether you have almost no effective chance to actually get a job? Grug care. Grug can't pass live coding interview. Grug freeze. Grug ask for take home test instead. Grug not care about "perverse incentive." Grug want job.