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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) by logicalmonster on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:49PM (#38846989)
Does that come before or after any reasonable human contact through the course of a respectful process?

A 2 hour take-home as 1 step of a fair hiring process isn't too bad.

But you applying and then automatically getting a homework assignment would feel pretty crappy.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) by apozem on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:04PM (#38847156)
Before speaking to anyone, unfortunately.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) by pierat on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:22PM (#38847326)
Thanks for the heads up.

Seems pretty.... uncanny for them to do that :D