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When I interviewed for my current position, I had a home assignment to solve. They said 2-3 hours which transformed in 2-3 days over the weekend for me. I reall
by DeathArrow 4y ago
When I interviewed for my current position, I had a home assignment to solve. They said 2-3 hours which transformed in 2-3 days over the weekend for me. I really wanted to do a good job, so I thought it thoroughly, did it and modified it until the result was the best I could do.
Even without taking my time to do the best job possible, it wasn't going to be a 2 hours job, but at least a 4 or 5 hours job.
It will never going to last as they say. For one reason, persons giving these tests are underestimating the time.
And if I said that I don't want the test, they wouldn't have hired me, which would be a shame. :)
At other interviews when I got to choose between live coding or sessions with questions and home assignments, I've always have chosen home assignments and always got an offer.
- apwheele 4y agoBeing a former professor, to do good tests is really hard. The vast majority of take home tests are quite poor that I have seen (in data science at least). I am skeptical most people even attempt to do their own tests they create, I commonly see people suggest things will be 2-4 hours when they will be a day or two of work, https://www.bryanshalloway.com/2020/10/27/should-you-use-an-assignment-or-exercise-as-part-of-your-hiring-process-for-a-data-scientist/ https://www.bryanshalloway.com/2020/10/27/should-you-use-an-....
- siva7 4y agoI know of some management colleagues who are fast at compiling interview tasks but i know they never did their tasks themselves and you could tell just how bad these tasks were.
- dilyevsky 4y agoThe reason is simple - nobody there has done it or if they did lied about how much it took