Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill

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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