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The idea of a take home originally appealed to me, but my actual track record with them is very poor. They are usually too open ended - sometimes they'll say to
by nsxwolf 4y ago
The idea of a take home originally appealed to me, but my actual track record with them is very poor. They are usually too open ended - sometimes they'll say to write some service, that it shouldn't take more than an evening, and then you're left questioning how much they're expecting. Do they want a quick proof of concept? Do they want unit tests? Acceptance tests?
Then there's the follow up - often a rejection with no comments on the code whatsoever. Or you get completely ghosted. Or, and this is the real kicker - they finally ask you to come in, where they have you do leetcode on a whiteboard anyway.
If the process was "Here's what we're expecting, turn it in by X date, we'll have you do a review with the team, and assuming all goes well, we'll talk about an offer at that point" I would be a lot more open to them. But that's never the process.
- listenallyall 4y agoI strongly agree that rejection w/o any comment on the project you just spent 4-10 hours on, is very frustrating. Of course, it's just a subset of the whole interview process, not just programming, you never know what the actual reason you got rejected was.
- Aeolun 4y ago> often a rejection with no comments on the code whatsoever Honestly, after getting a rejection with motivation 2 times now, I’m leaning towards rejections without motivation being better. I just do not care to see how utterly arbitrary a lot of the reasons are. The basically come down to ‘you did some things I personally didn’t like’.
- ipaddr 4y agoYou are more likely to be ghosted at this point in the interview process. I'm leaning towards skipping them. The online ones are not bad unless I have to entertain the interview while trying to work.
- Gigachad 4y agoUgh yeah, one place I worked at handed out these tasks and specifically didn't mention to write unit tests despite it being a hard requirement because "We don't want people who don't do this without being prompted".