[softwaredoug]

Yes I'm curious how this works. I don't expect a dev to be productive for some time, maybe months. And for isolated, self-contained tasks, like those that make a good intern project, it takes time & effort for the dev team to set those up so someone can be successful at it.

[nurturelabs]

Generally the tryout projects are the projects the company is already working on and make the candidate work parallelly on them. After the try-out period is over they assess their work by comparing it with current team's work (obviously factoring in they were not working full-time)