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What kind of work-sample test do you look at for hiring the people you want to be sure are smarter than you are? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923 h
by tokenadult 14y ago
What kind of work-sample test do you look at for hiring the people you want to be sure are smarter than you are?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923
- borski 14y agoWe typically provide a realistic scenario in which we work with the person to see if they are impressive. As in, we work with them on a project unrelated to Tinfoil for a few hours to a day, and see how it goes.
- tptacek 14y agoDo you provide the same work-sample test for every candidate, so you can build a history of how people handle it and then look to see how your best hires did? We did that (it was Cory's idea, not mine, for what it's worth) and it's been immensely valuable. If I could get one new hiring process adopted in tech, it'd be that one: come up with a graded work-sample test that will generate a history you can mine for data down the road.
- borski 14y agoIndeed we do. And I agree. Honestly, with most of the people we end up interviewing it doesn't even get to the end. It's a hard challenge, but we prefer it that way.