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Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires by pc86 on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @10:30AM (#10265173)
However it's easily tweaked for employers who want to do some flavor of this but actually respect their employees:

> Have the candidate make assumptions and document their reasoning (risks invalidating the final product but that's a slim chance)

> Meet late Monday or later that week

One point I haven't seen mentioned here: If I'm currently employed and interviewing, I am not going to take two days of vacation just so that I can interview with you, work on something for you over my weekend, then interview with you again.

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Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires by junke on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @03:04PM (#10267292)
Well, context is everything. In principle, I do not want to be expected to work overtime, and it starts at the interview. Also, I am not against taking a day of vacation for interviews (but this is maybe cultural). But if the job is really interesting, I can adapt. And I appreciate the fact that if am asked to work during a week-end, the person interviewing me offers to be reachable too.
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