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0 pointsryandrake10y ago0 comments

> not sure why there is so much resistance here about doing an 8 hour test

If you're applying to just 5 companies, that's a full (well 40-hour) work week of effort for a small chance of going forward with the next stage of the interview/hazing ritual. Might be good if you are already unemployed, but incompatible with candidates who already work.

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iolothebard10y ago

I ask them to give me a full design document with their coding style guide. Since it's an 'easy test', this is my 'easy test' to check their procedures.

They should already have a coding document in place and they can use their boilerplate document to quickly whip up a design doc. Right??!!?

AnimalMuppet10y ago

Which means that, if you're hiring, and you want only candidates who are currently unemployed, it's a reasonable practice. But the best candidates probably already have jobs, and you're not going to get them. So maybe that's not really the way you want to do things...

tetraodonpuffer10y ago

not necessarily, if I am not unemployed I am not likely to apply to tons of jobs, but be a bit more selective, and I don't see finding more than 1 job a week that I would be interested in... of course I am not a typical developer (C, python, back-end, security, networking, ...) so there are a lot less jobs in my niche than say if I was a front-end person

This means that taking every sunday to work on cool / interesting self-contained problems would be great, and much better than spending time revising red-black trees and avl tree rotations and sorts and so on for the n-th time to prepare for the whiteboarding

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