[fringedgentian]

> Personally I feel about $100-200 fee as well, if the candidate is looking for compensation to build something fictional in 2 hours, is that candidate really care about your company, and is it a good idea to hire people who joins to your company just because you happen to be paying decent salary and they don't have a better option at the moment?

The money is more of a token to show that the company values the candidate's time and is not having them complete this coding challenge lightly.

[fmavituna]

> The money is more of a token to show that the company values the candidate's time and is not having them complete this coding challenge lightly.

That's my point. If a candidate takes it lightly because you didn't pay some dollars, does she care enough? If not, is she still a good hire? Do you want to hire someone who doesn't care about the job or the company enough to even fail to provide full effort on their first assignment?

[lwelyk]

Why should an employee care a lot about a /potential/ job, especially if everyone they're talking to is doing the same thing?