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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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