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by andrew_wc_brown
3404 days ago
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Toronto startup hire culture is really sad even today. I interviewed at Top Hat 3+ years ago and I remember their hiring process was sad because it was a FizzBuzz test under conditions that were setup for me to fail. I wasn't allowed to use my own laptop, editor of choice, or language of choice to complete the test. They wouldn't tell me what conditions they wanted eg. do they want test code? I had to do the test on their computer, in javascript, no internet. They said I was slow. Well you should have let me use MacVim and I would shown how slow you are in TextMate. They said I didn't write test code. They wouldn't tell me, and they wouldn't even look at mass bodies of work of production apps where I had tons of test code I written with CI. |
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Sorry to hear you had an awful experience like that. We definitely want to provide a better candidate experience than that.
As I mentioned before in this thread I can't speak for interviews that long ago, but these days we have a standard process: we want to see you in your element, so you're encouraged to use your own machine and whatever tools and languages you're best at. We also currently do a pairing-style mini-project where you're free to look things up - Google has become another essential tool for devs, so we want to avoid forcing people into unnatural ways of working that won't reflect their actual abilities in an interview.