Re:Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill
by wahnfrieden on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:25PM
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Hey, I'm Alex @ Top Hat, in engineering
Sorry to hear you had an awful experience like that. We definitely want to provide a better candidate experience than that.
As I mentioned before in this thread I can't speak for interviews that long ago, but these days we have a standard process: we want to see you in your element, so you're encouraged to use your own machine and whatever tools and languages you're best at. We also currently do a pairing-style mini-project where you're free to look things up - Google has become another essential tool for devs, so we want to avoid forcing people into unnatural ways of working that won't reflect their actual abilities in an interview.
Sorry to hear you had an awful experience like that. We definitely want to provide a better candidate experience than that.
As I mentioned before in this thread I can't speak for interviews that long ago, but these days we have a standard process: we want to see you in your element, so you're encouraged to use your own machine and whatever tools and languages you're best at. We also currently do a pairing-style mini-project where you're free to look things up - Google has become another essential tool for devs, so we want to avoid forcing people into unnatural ways of working that won't reflect their actual abilities in an interview.