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Re:On asking job candidates to code by nialo on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:49AM (#11289555)
I'd rather spend 8 hours programming than burn a full day on 5 whiteboard interviews the way Google does.

More generally, I think the target should be to make the work sample test take a similar amount of time to the in person interview you'd have to do instead.

Re:On asking job candidates to code by kafkaesq on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:15PM (#11290743)
The point is, they never wrote back.

That's just shabby and disrespectful, regardless of how many other candidates they're talking to, or how they evaluated this particular candidate.