[emodendroket]

What would you do instead? Everybody knows interviews don't work that well but nobody has any better ideas.

[alacombe]

1) give a 3 day coding challenge to gauge the candidate real potential, and 2) hire fast, fire fast.

[scarface74]

I’m barely willing to take an online coding test for one job when I know historically for me, if I get submitted for 10 jobs by a recruiter, I’m likely to get three offers, take myself out of the running for 6, and only have one company that’s not interested. Why would I ever spend three days on a coding challenge.

And I’m a good test taker and interviewer.

[emodendroket]

Yeah, hour-long coding challenges and taking a day or two off of work are bad enough.

[alacombe]

we're probably not at the same pay-grade / level of specialization.

[emodendroket]

Who's going to consent to doing three _days_ of work?

[alacombe]

Most of the candidate of my past job who passed the initial non-technical interview with my former manager, over 2 years, that was probably a dozen people, leading to 3 hires.

[emodendroket]

Personally I think being willing to do such a thing is a sign of desperation.

[alacombe]

On the other side, it saved us from bad hires that would have been difficult to fire otherwise.