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How Do You Assess Technical Ability in Interviews?
Managing Up
Do You Hate Takehome Tests?
Hating take home tests is one of the things that i hate in hiring processes. I don't like the idea of an unbounded amount of time somebody can spend on it. Who's going to say, i spent 14 hours on this thing that you said should take me about four hours? Nobody’s going to say that. And if you're optimizing your interview for something that is not the normal day to day, you're automatically disadvantaging people who might have a different skill set or background than you do. It could be 30 minutes before they come back with a really well thought out explanation and explain what their problem was. But over a decade long scale, that we do start
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