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1. Show-off quizzes are of limited relevance.
2. Take home work is a huge stressor for people with limited amounts of outside time.
3. Open-source contributions are a) too restrictive as a filter, and b) favor people with lots of time, just like #2.
4. Personal connections narrow the pool that you have, promote nepotism, and tend to exclude people who are already at a disadvantage.
5. Looking at previous jobs screws over lots of junior people and just means you're depending on the last interviewer's shitty decision.
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1. Show-off quizzes are of limited relevance.
2. Take home work is a huge stressor for people with limited amounts of outside time.
3. Open-source contributions are a) too restrictive as a filter, and b) favor people with lots of time, just like #2.
4. Personal connections narrow the pool that you have, promote nepotism, and tend to exclude people who are already at a disadvantage.
5. Looking at previous jobs screws over lots of junior people and just means you're depending on the last interviewer's shitty decision.