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Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires by fmavituna on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @08:36AM (#10264619)
> 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 (#10265604)
Why should an employee care a lot about a /potential/ job, especially if everyone they're talking to is doing the same thing?