> When it comes to searching for a job, best to not waste cumulative hours of your life writing material that won't be appreciated.
Cover letters aside, this includes take home assignments in particular.
Cover letters aside, this includes take home assignments in particular.
We judged the take home to be less than 1 hour and removed the “white boarding code” portion of the in person. The goal was to remove the nervous factor when whiteboarding code and allowing candidates to write code in a format, language, ide that they are comfortable in. We then discussed their code during the interview.
We think this lead to shorter in person interview durations and a less stressful experience for the candidates.
We’re going to try this for a few cycles of internships and see what happens.
I agree though about take home work before the first interviews.
The score is always too low and there are always some tests failing. Just submit the tasks blank or with dummy code. This way they waste time and money for the license - that's the only thing one can do in defence.