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Doesn't a take-home task also prevent any chance to ask questions in the middle? And I mean questions both ways. An interviewee can ask questions about the code

by sqeaky 2y ago

Doesn't a take-home task also prevent any chance to ask questions in the middle? And I mean questions both ways. An interviewee can ask questions about the code base that might be common knowledge to people on the team and an interviewer can ask questions about why a thing happened and gain insight into the interviewees thought processes. I get that interviewing is a skill on its own, and not everyone has skills that work in an interview that transfer to the day-to-day job but don't most day-to-day jobs have a large communication component?

Hamuko 2y ago
>Doesn't a take-home task also prevent any chance to ask questions in the middle? Probably yeah. I don't remember my last take-home assignment having communication between the start and the end, although I would have probably been able to send them a question if there was something unclear. >don't most day-to-day jobs have a large communication component? I wouldn't know if mine has a "large" communication component, especially in terms of synchronous communication, since everyone's remote, choosing their own hours and so on. A lot of our work is very independent.