[renewiltord]

That's very interesting that you haven't had any signal from Github. My friends also shared that feeling but I've tried that on two people and they were both hits. So at least I know it has specificity.

Ah I see, you do one for the role, not per person. I misunderstood. That makes sense. What sort of roles were you doing that for? Generally, I aim to keep things short which is what I worry about with exercises. The tendency to perfectionism is higher in that than in real work. But if it's effective, so be it. I know I was hired that way once out of uni the better part of a decade ago! :D

[nickdandakis]

The vast majority of candidates I've spoken to commit their code to private repositories. Same goes for me.

Roles were for fullstack and frontend. You're right in that sometimes time escapes us when coding. That's why I set a time limit to the exercise and ask them to submit whatever they coded in that time frame. Doesn't have to be perfect, nor does it have to be complete. The point is to have code to talk through specific to the role you're hiring for, and ideally specific to the project itself.