[darryl42]

How do you feel about the all day interview process some large companies are currently using? Keep in mind you probably had 1-3 phone + computer interviews before the in person interview.

A take home test seems like a less time intensive process as you at least don't need to take time off from your normal job to do it.

[sheepmullet]

Are you paying as well as these top tech companies? Do candidates know it?

Are you providing as many career opportunities and growth as Google/Facebook/etc? Do candidates know it?

These big companies get away with it because their hiring funnel is jam packed with top talent.

Rejecting a lot of top talent is no big deal for these companies. There is still tons of top talent who will jump through the hoops.

But a big hint: they won't jump through the hoops to work at your company!

[eropple]

> How do you feel about the all day interview process some large companies are currently using?

I don't go for the all-day ones (I just decline; after my last Google interview I'm done putting myself through the wringer for a whateverjob), but I really do enjoy in-person interviews. Like, last time I was looking for a FT gig I did at least a phone interview at 35 places and an in-person at 20. I enjoy interacting with people. I get a great lay of the land of what the market looks like, what's not just "cutting edge" but what is, in practice, the leading edge of what people are actually trying to use in anger. This is, in addition to just learning about a given company, why I view in-person interviews as a two-way street. After my last FT company shuttered, I moved into consulting largely because I have a better view of the world than most people working for individual companies. I've learned, from talking to a ton of people, many things that might even seem like offhand facts from idle conversation that have helped me. Like, I happened to remember that D3 instances exist in AWS from a chat with somebody on one of those interviews and in the process I saved a client $20K/month in EBS costs.

Maybe it's a Shockingly Minority Viewpoint, but I think that, in a healthy business relationship (and it's important to realize that employer/employee is a business relationship), both sides get something, even if it's the short relationship of an interview.

[kasey_junk]

I love interviewing. Like, I'd do it as a hobby if I could. That said, my own preferences are not likely to be salient to the greater community of potential hires. So, I have to put them aside when designing hiring pipelines.

Having given this problem a lot of thought and experimentation, I've come to realize that designing good work sample based hiring pipelines is very difficult. Designing hiring pipelines based on something else is impossible.

[dannyr]

In addition, Take-home test is better because it is more flexible than an in-person or even phone interview.