Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok

Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by lapser on Friday August 12, 2022 @09:26AM (#32438279)

I'm in my 30s with a little short of 15 years of experience (all individual contributor), and have interviewed people who claim 20 years of experience or whatever, and they just haven't come close to some people who have been out of uni for a few years. Just cos you have 20 years of experience, it doesn't mean you're fit for the role. Equally, just cos you're just out of university, doesn't mean you're not fit for the role.

The whole point of these tests and whatnot is to weed out the bad from the good. It definitely is unfair on those who are good, but I'm not really sure what the alternative is.

I dislike the take home tests as much as the next person, and only do them if I really want the job. Beyond that, it's a neccessary evil until something better comes along.

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Re:Tell HN: Unpaid home assignments are not ok by ipaddr on Friday August 12, 2022 @02:33PM (#32442312)

Something tells me you are lost in some metric that is providing false feedbaxk. On average people with 20 years will bring a depth of experience that will outweigh someone with no experience. If you are testing syntax knowledge of a new framework and find the fresh grad is performing better at recall I would not be surprised. But what you miss is over the course of the year the 20 year person will provide knowledge in areas you didn't measure and will quickly catch up in syntax / pattern recall.

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