Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens

Re:Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens by autarch on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:00PM (#29518004)

If you really want to test someone's coding, let them do some coding in their own time with their own tools and send it to you. This isn't ideal, since it can be time consuming, but I think it's more humane than live coding in some weird environment.

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Re:Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens by nawgz on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:39PM (#29518193)

I would argue that using less of someone's time is strictly "more humane" than using more of someone's time, because an individual's reaction to a situation is... individual

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Re:Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens by tfehring on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:49PM (#29518237)

There's no reason an asynchronous coding assignment needs to be more time-intensive than a synchronous coding interview - that's the convention but it's not a necessary one. Lots of companies do 4 hours of technical interviews, it's not hard to come up with an effective programming assignment that takes less time than that.

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Re:Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens by wiseowise on Saturday December 11, 2021 @02:15AM (#29519159)

This is subjective.

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Re:Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens by autarch on Saturday December 11, 2021 @10:56AM (#29521750)

Maybe the best option is just to give people a choice.

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