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> Should we stop giving fun test tasks to our job candidates? Yes
by zer0tonin 5mo ago
> Should we stop giving fun test tasks to our job candidates?
Yes
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- Chaosvex 5mo agoYeah, fun for who exactly?
- dymk 5mo agoMe. That sounds way more fun than inverting a binary tree, and they pay candidates for their time.
- FartyMcFarter 5mo agoIt seems this particular company makes a payment for completing those tasks, so it might not be that bad.
- motakuk 5mo agoWe do, it's a part of our hiring pipeline: https://archestra.ai/careers https://archestra.ai/careers
- jbellis 5mo agoDevelopers: stop doing whiteboard interviews, they don't measure anything relevant to the real job Also devs: stop giving us real world problems to solve
- gabeio 5mo agoThose are the only two options to finding quality candidates? Try talking more about the meta of coding itself. Get into the developers head by _talking_ to them and understanding how they would approach and attack different problems. You can show them code and ask them what they would do differently / how they would go about implementing X-Y-Z. Just because you can write foobar doesn't mean you understand how to apply algorithms or w/e specific problems [your] team has. It's _far_ better to understand how they would solve a problem over their syntax anyway.