Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical Interviews?

Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by perl4ever on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:02PM (#20711526)

Yeah, I've been there and done that. I'm sure that people justify it by assuming there will otherwise be cheating on the take-home.

In practice, I take jobs that don't require demonstrating anything technical in the interview.

But a take-home test would only add information, not take anything away. So there is no reason in principle someone couldn't use it to hire.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by NeverFade on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:17PM (#20711581)

There is, if they want to hire strong candidates in this competitive market.

A candidate like that will have 10+ companies trying to recruit them. Out of these, 9 will require 1-2 hours of remote screens at most for an onsite. The 10th will require a 5-10 hour take-home project for the same onsite.

Which one will the strong candidate skip?

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by perl4ever on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:49PM (#20711728)

I don't know, but if 10 companies are competing for one employee, then the 9 that inevitably fail obviously were using the wrong approach. You can't point to the similarities as evidence of the correct strategy, because by definition the differences were probative.

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