Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf]

Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by yieldcrv on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:30AM (#35042963)

Ask HN: Do I have to do Hired's coding assessments to get interview requests now?

Question for you all, I've used the same resume and landed jobs twice on Hired before, now I have even more experience. This round I got 0 interview requests during my 6 week promotion period.

The only difference I see is that Hired made some coding assessments that employers could use to filter candidates. I didn't do them.

Has anyone else A/B tested this? Coding assessments = a bunch of interview requests?

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Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by nelzya on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:41AM (#35043112)

My guess your salary reqs changed...

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Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by yieldcrv on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:51AM (#35043250)

I played around with them during the promotion period, put them in line with what other recruiters were telling me (now that base salaries are posted publicly in most(?) job listings)

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Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by OnionBlender on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:55AM (#35043315)

I have 15 years experience and haven't received any interviews from companies on hired either. I also didn't do the coding assessments.

Another factor is that my experience probably isn't in demand. All of my experience was writing C++ for devices but only in user space. Most C++ jobs seem to want more than just a generalist C++ programmer. They want low level embedded experience, or backend, or distributed systems, or GPGPU, or graphics.

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Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by Salgat on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:11PM (#35043578)

I did the basic coding assessment as a Senior Dev and got around 12 interview requests at around $200k salary average. I'm willing to bet most employers filter for this, since most employers already get a ton of applicants either way.

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Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by yieldcrv on Monday March 06, 2023 @12:28PM (#35044041)

thanks! that fits my hypothesis. yeah it was hard to prioritize doing that when there are so many other recruiters and companies in different stages of the interview process with their own coding assessments.

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Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by epicureanideal on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:54PM (#35049601)

How recently did you do this? Also, do you have any special qualifications that would make you more likely to get interview requests than average?

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Re:Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers [pdf] by lbrito on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:22PM (#35045200)

Probably just timing. Hiring is bad right now.

I got a couple of interview requests 3 weeks into my promotion period, didn't take the quizzes.

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