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I mean, I understand that it can be demanding and have personally halted my applications when people had interview "tests" that were obviously hours of work, bu

I mean, I understand that it can be demanding and have personally halted my applications when people had interview "tests" that were obviously hours of work, but you can't expect the company to hire someone without doing a reasonable amount of due diligence, which usually includes at least some basic exercises and multiple interviews. Like I said, hiring is a big commitment for the company -- bigger than people who've never employed people often think. Most interviewers will be sympathetic because they'll remember what it was like when they were applying for jobs, but that doesn't mean they can just hand-wave away all the requirements.

x0x0 12y ago
Of course companies need to verify you can actually do the work for which they are potentially going to hire you. However, if you hand me such a task (or glassdoor says you will), I have to be really excited about your company to spend my time that way. A 20 minute shared-coding session in one of the dozen online collaborative edit tools would probably give you most of the same information while saving a lot of the candidate's time.
- cookiecaper 12y ago
  The code exercise we distribute shouldn't take a competent developer more than 20 minutes. I agree that you don't need to waste a lot of the dev's time.