Re:Tell candidates what to expect from your job interviews
by collyw on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:45AM
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"It should only take you 2 or 3 hours".
Estimates are almost always under.
As you point out the most basic project setup takes time. And I am working on a home laptop, not my work machine, so I don't have everything installed in the same way as I do for a work setup (that's usually at least a days work in itself on a new work machine).
Also it is not uncommon to find some strange issue that will take a couple of hours to fix if you are unfamiliar with it.
Last technical test I had involved using Django's chache framework. I have used Django a lot, but not really used the cache in depth. I got everything working in the end and they failed me for the most trivial reasons.
Estimates are almost always under.
As you point out the most basic project setup takes time. And I am working on a home laptop, not my work machine, so I don't have everything installed in the same way as I do for a work setup (that's usually at least a days work in itself on a new work machine).
Also it is not uncommon to find some strange issue that will take a couple of hours to fix if you are unfamiliar with it. Last technical test I had involved using Django's chache framework. I have used Django a lot, but not really used the cache in depth. I got everything working in the end and they failed me for the most trivial reasons.