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Do you follow up the candidates that drop out of inactivity? Is the reason that they feel they're not up to the task, lack of time or do they pursue other oppor
by stpe 12y ago
Do you follow up the candidates that drop out of inactivity? Is the reason that they feel they're not up to the task, lack of time or do they pursue other opportunities?
Personally I find the a technical assignment really necessary as part of an recruitment process to really get down to the candidate's "coding personality". Weakness, strengths, interesting, motivation, etc. When doing recruiting I've found that more "open answered" technical assignment are better than "solve this very specific problem".
A solution that could be discussed and put in different perspectives ("what would be the first thing you do if traffic suddenly jumped by a factor 1000", "...if the amount of data was much larger", "...if you had to support feature x...") generally reveal more skills than something more focused on specific algorithms or even syntax.
- wozmirek 12y agoWe don't follow them as a rule, most of the time we hear about them doing sth else - seems that it's option 2 &3 then :) The tech assignment is meant to check how you think AND how much you know - we think that it's easier for a programmer to spend time coding and learning than "reprogramming" their mindset (the coding personality). As for the solution discussed - well, this checks the self-independence of a candidate, doesn't it? ;)
- danielweber 12y agoPersonally I find the a technical assignment really necessary as part of an recruitment process to really get down to the candidate's "coding personality". Ad-hoc personality tests are, at best, random. Especially if you don't tell the candidate ahead of time what he's supposed to be demonstrating.