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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by danielhooper on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:50AM (#13652347)
I called them out on this in one of the Who's Hiring posts they always comment on. This seems like a reallllyyyy obvious problem for them...
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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by pyre on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:17AM (#13652547)
This reminds me of people calling out DeviantArt several years ago in Who's Hiring posts, and their hiring practices.

Which culminated in this blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061860

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by canistr on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @11:38AM (#13653247)
What's interesting to me about the discussion in this article is how many people talked about wanting to adopt Google/Amazon's hiring process and how they liked the 7 interviews/whiteboarding way more than take-home assignments.

Call me weird, but I prefer the assignments than the mindless discussions about balancing trees and Big-Oh notation.

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by cholantesh on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:16PM (#13653552)
I think there is a place for both. Maybe not data structures, but things like application architecture and development practices are ripe for good discussion.

A well designed take home assignment, meanwhile can be a good filter, telling you immediately if the candidate knows the basics and has the added benefit of showing you strengths and weaknesses in their practice.

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Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill by lkozma on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:31PM (#13653683)
Having written a thesis about "balancing trees and Bih-Oh notation" I am saddened that you consider the topic mindless :)
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