Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score
by dajohnson89 on Monday November 13, 2017 @11:47PM
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is take home great? if you have a full time job, any sense of home life, is being asked to code a small project in your spare time (and on a limited time basis) sane? I did two this year, and tbh I think the next company that assigns me one I'll just decline.
I think take-home projects are great for evaluating domain experience and general programming aptitude but should be relatively small. Anything that would take more than 1-2 hours is an overkills, although sadly I see a lot of companies expecting you to build a full product (e.g. production ready iOS app with custom design and full test coverage).
Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score
by dajohnson89 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @09:10AM
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The ones I've taken this year were two days of effort and five days of effort. Because I was so busy with other things, both submissions were littered with TODOs and hacks, and both were given no-pass with zero feedback.
Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score
by dajohnson89 on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:03PM
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N.B. the LOE estimates of 2 & 5 days were theirs, not mine.
Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score
by justboxing on Monday November 13, 2017 @07:58PM
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> except people cheat.
I never understood this. In a programming / software development job more than any other job, aren't you very likely to fail at delivering on the job, if you cheat on the interview and tests?
Re:Hired – Technical Interview Score
by heartbreak on Monday November 13, 2017 @11:46PM
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If cheating is defined as looking up the solution on Google, I frequently cheat while performing my job responsibilities.
But the money's good while it lasts, right? And you can always 'fake it until you make it' on the job too, right?
(In a previous role, I gave applicants the same -- very trivial -- question that they had already coded the answer for in a do-at-home screening. I wasn't secretive about this, either, I told them that this is the exact same question they had already answered. A significant percentage of them were unable to figure out the same answer they had provided a few days earlier.)