No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback

Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by pingyong on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:28AM (#22267587)

I don't know. The problem is that there is almost no way to evaluate software engineers. Have a degree from a decent university? Cool, but how do we know how many actual larger programming assignments that included, and if those were group assignments, how much was your work? Have 10 years of experience? Cool, but how do we know what you actually worked on, and what the quality of your work was?

It's just difficult - and while interviews are decent, whiteboard tasks are usually useless. If you have your own or contributed to open source projects, that's pretty good too for assessing code quality, but not everyone has that.

Ultimately paying for assignments would probably be the best solution, but not everyone can do that either.

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Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in... by perl4ever on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:27AM (#22274113)

I think it's silly to complain about spending a few hours on a take-home assignment without pay. It's legitimate to reject that person as overly entitled.

But the problem is, some places provide a take-home assignment in the beginning, and then override their judgment with the programming test in the interview. Which makes it pointless, which probably leads to candidates rejecting the sort of place that does the take-home.

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