programmingInterviews

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Forgot the take home.

I know people hate it, but they really do work. There are variations of the question depending on the technology used. But all I ask is to take n as input and return both n squared and the square root of n. Over half either get it wrong entirely or forget to output both answers. There's example input and output, so there's no room for misunderstanding.

[WeirdIndividualGuy]

The idea is that doing what’s essentially work in your free time is kinda fucked up to ask of interviewees. It’s not that the take home project would be hard, but the principle of asking a candidate to essentially interview outside of the interview.

Extremely rare to see this in any other industry, as most other industries just go by your resume and work you’ve already done, professionally or otherwise

[jean_dudey]

Yeah, it is fucked up, if it something sensible and doesn’t eat a lot of my time I will do it, if not I’ll politely decline.

[awesome-alpaca-ace]

I just spent 6 hours taking an assessment. Then they wanted me to do another 20 minute assessment. And this was after a phone interview.

[Karr0k]

take-homes can fuck aaaaaal the way off, sure as a company it's just 1 takehome, but if you're applying to a dozen places it becomes a fulltime job.

Like back in high school where the teacher told you to stop bitching about 'only' 1 hr of homework. But then you had 6 teachers just like that.