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0 pointsjohnnyanmac3y ago0 comments

>As long as they don't take any more than 1-3 hours.

Well, that's the issue. It may be because I'm a bad programmer, but I can't think of a take home that took me less than 3 hours. The take home I did for my first job took some 20 hours over 4 days, and I exaggerated and said it took 12 (which didn't garner a response so I'm guessing that wasn't an unusual answer). I could do that while I'm a student, I can't do that again as a working professional without wasting an entire weekend after a week of full time work.

I still hate leetcode more, but at least there you have an explicit timer.

>For myself, what I hate is when the take-home assignment comes first. Like, before you talk with anyone at all, or maybe immediately after you did the 15 minute HR/recruiter screen.

I've never had a test come later. 15 minute interview call to make sure the high level details are correct (pay, location, physical office vs. Remote, etc), and then I am sent an interview test.

Granted, my last 2 jobs did not employ take home tests, so I know I'm not forced to do them. But given my experiences I understand why others would be opposed to them. It sounds like you would be opposed to my experiences as well.

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gered3y ago

> I've never had a test come later. 15 minute interview call to make sure the high level details are correct (pay, location, physical office vs. Remote, etc), and then I am sent an interview test.

Depends on the company. My personal experience has luckily been (so far) that more companies I've interviewed with who do take-homes at all have given them later on in the process.

I suspect with the current job market situation given all the recent layoffs that things will probably start to shift for those companies that do take-homes, where they'll probably start giving them to candidates at the beginning of the interview process, as they'll probably see it as an easy filter for themselves. Ugh.