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Re:Show HN: Coding Interview Practice by mbillie1 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:28PM (#7478211)
A nebulous description of a vitally important quality - someone who your existing team won't hate. It's one-sided to claim that people only use it to unfairly reject candidates. Being an ahole is something I'd like to see candidates rejected for, but it won't show up in a technical assessment.
Re:Show HN: Coding Interview Practice by frostmatthew on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:00PM (#7478306)
> Being an ahole is something I'd like to see candidates rejected for, but it won't show up in a technical assessment.

I'm not sure that shows up in hours of interviews either...especially when most (all?) of that time is spent on "technical assessment"

Re:Show HN: Coding Interview Practice by 02 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @07:13AM (#7479620)
It filters out the people whose ego won't let them take the test.
Re:Show HN: Coding Interview Practice by krainboltgreene on Thursday March 27, 2014 @07:39AM (#7479704)
And people who don't think tests are a good start to a relationship between an employee and a company.

And people who are getting better offers at better companies.

You'll never know.

Re:Show HN: Coding Interview Practice by normloman on Thursday March 27, 2014 @09:45AM (#7480301)
You mean it filters out people with too much self respect to jump through hoops to get a shitty start up job.