Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
by fringedgentian on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @08:23AM
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> Personally I feel about $100-200 fee as well, if the candidate is looking for compensation to build something fictional in 2 hours, is that candidate really care about your company, and is it a good idea to hire people who joins to your company just because you happen to be paying decent salary and they don't have a better option at the moment?
The money is more of a token to show that the company values the candidate's time and is not having them complete this coding challenge lightly.
Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
by fmavituna on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @08:36AM
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> The money is more of a token to show that the company values the candidate's time and is not having them complete this coding challenge lightly.
That's my point. If a candidate takes it lightly because you didn't pay some dollars, does she care enough? If not, is she still a good hire? Do you want to hire someone who doesn't care about the job or the company enough to even fail to provide full effort on their first assignment?
Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
by lwelyk on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @11:28AM
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Why should an employee care a lot about a /potential/ job, especially if everyone they're talking to is doing the same thing?
Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
by sundaeofshock on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @11:01AM
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> If it's not worth the risk do you think it's a good hire for that company? Because in that case you clearly don't care much about the company and will jump the ship when next slightly better opportunity arrives.
And what's wrong with that? You are basically asking for a loyalty from the employee that is almost never returned by the company.
Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
by karmajunkie on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @09:10PM
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It's not a matter of risk. It's a matter of whether a candidate is at all able to work on something like this over a weekend. A weekend assignment presumes a certain lifestyle and implicitly discriminates against candidates who don't have that life. Primarily this affects single parents and individuals who are caretakers, but I'm probably leaving out a host of other reasons.
If it's not worth the risk do you think it's a good hire for that company? Because in that case you clearly don't care much about the company and will jump the ship when next slightly better opportunity arrives.
Possibly I'm assuming too much and don't mean this to be personal but I'm really curious, is this the case or am I missing something?
Personally I feel about $100-200 fee as well, if the candidate is looking for compensation to build something fictional in 2 hours, is that candidate really care about your company, and is it a good idea to hire people who joins to your company just because you happen to be paying decent salary and they don't have a better option at the moment?