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(more details follow) You should not hire people that do any of the things you ask. They are giving their valuable services away for free - since your company
by maxcap 17y ago
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You should not hire people that do any of the things you ask. They are giving their valuable services away for free - since your company exists to make money, your employees giving their time so freely is likely to affect your profitability.
People thinking about applying - Reconsider. The company is too cheap to pay for good work - they extract what they need from interviews. Its likely that you'll never discuss pay with them since you're not going to get hired once they have their answers.
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Getting work done in an interview is a poor practice since the candidate does not know if the work relates to an actual problem or is fictional.
If an actual problem, you are asking for the candidate's time and could end up using the candidate's approach - this puts you into a conflict of interest: you have a candidate that just gave you what you need and you are in a position to hire.
If the problem is fictional, why bother? How does it help?
Besides, candidates are smart too: it's likely they hacking the interview process too. Not sure where that leaves anyone, but good luck with that.
[want a solution? hire me ;) ]
- eru 17y agoPossible solution: Pay the candidates for the time they spent working on your problems in the interview. Though I doubt this is a problem in interviews. But asking for a solution even before the interview will skew your distribution of appliciants, like you point out. Not sure if this is a bad thing --- you want to hire people for whom solving your problems is easy.
- maxcap 17y agoIt is a problem for freelancers - people always ask for free solutions to real problems and various ways. Candidate employees are in the same situation, but during the worst possible time - the interview. As you said, you want to hire people for whom solving your problems is easy. Keep in mind that your problems are not unique and probably already have a solution, so you really need someone that.....woops...almost gave it away ;)
- eru 17y agoYes. Though drafting a cover letter and tweaking your resume also takes some time (not to mention the research).
- dmor 17y agowe're talking about 10 minutes of coding here, not actually building some core functionality for a company that could be extracted from the interview process startup are by definition cheap, so if you want to work for one you better come prepared for that. working in a small team is like adding someone to the family, so knowing how you think and solve problems - and what your level of initiative is - is crucial