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Live interviews control for wasting the candidate time in a way that take home exercises don't. Both the candidate and the interviewer need to take time out of
by toast0 2y ago
Live interviews control for wasting the candidate time in a way that take home exercises don't.
Both the candidate and the interviewer need to take time out of their day for the interview. If it's an in-person interview, the candidate also takes travel time etc, which could be more disruptive.
But it takes almost no time to give a take home problem, so there's potential for a significant assymetry in time spent between candidate and employer.
- Spivak 2y agoHuh? I've done take-home problems and they've been fine. I'll take it 100% of the time over live coding.
- zeta0134 2y agoSure, if *you* did them they might have been fine. One really important thing the interview needs to screen for is the qualifications of the person actually trying to be hired, and not their buddy doing the work instead.
- Spivak 2y agoI am really glad I don't live in your world where interviewing is such a profoundly low-trust activity. I feel sorry for interviewers where that's a legitimate concern.
- hnfong 2y agoI mean, dude, take a look at what we were originally discussing -- an app on github that helps you cheat on live interviews in Zoom. FWIW, I've interviewed almost a hundred candidates in the past couple years and I think the number of candidates that I thought might be cheating are in the 3-5% range. It's fairly low, but if the take-home was the main thing that determined whether the candidate was hired, I wouldn't take that 3% chance.