Re:Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers
by JamesSwift on Friday June 05, 2026 @02:32PM
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Hmm thats a pretty interesting variant. I dont think it would apply directly to our team, but I like the potential playground it gives for both coming up with solutions as well as being a kickstarter for convos on alternatives.
On my current team, I care a lot about the ability to write fast code. The most important part of my process is a take-home designed to take 2 hours where the main goal is to solve a relatively easy problem as performantly as possible. Answers have varied from 0.2ms – 50ms.
Take-homes have some obvious disadvantages, but overall I find they're better at finding the people we're looking for than just about every other method. But I'm at a small company, hiring for a fairly specialized team. If the situation was different (e.g. I needed to hire 50 people/year) I'd use a much more standard process.