[bryanrasmussen]

I don't get it, every job I have interviewed for since 2013 has had a take home. A couple of them waived it in my case but otherwise they all had take homes. Where are these jobs where people don't get given take homes?

[qudat]

When you are rapidly hiring, giving a candidate 2 weeks to complete a take home is a huge drag on the process. Instead, sandwiching 3 interviews (resume walk, leetcode, system design) into a 3 hour time period lets candidates move through the process faster.

[bryanrasmussen]

hmm most of the take homes I ever got had a 1 week to complete but I guess I see it, I don't think I've ever been trying to get on a company that is hiring more than a small time at any time.

[apwell23]

meta, google, amazon don't have take home

Basically all big companies doing industrial scale hiring ( and firing) that don't have time or patience for take homes.

[layoric]

In Australia, AWS dev position in 2021 had a take home. Microsoft contract position before that didn’t but they were desperate to fill seats on a poorly executed gov contract.

[zdragnar]

GitHub (pre-microsoft at least) and Crowdstrike both did. Amazon didn't have a take home so much as a "prove you can write code with this simple problem" though that was also pre-AI days as well.

[filesfiles]

> Basically all big companies doing industrial scala hiring ( and firing)

Is Scala the right choice for hiring and firing, though? If they need to fire quickly, why not straight machine code?

[strken]

I believe this is a typo for SCADA, which would control the industrial machinery used to fire employees in order to ensure distance and accuracy.

[apwell23]

to pretend that they care about safety

[ghaff]

I can't speak to developer roles specifically. But the last job I had (for a long time), I just dropped an email to someone who was a client. I think a fair number of the developers at the company came through internships or referrals and AFAIK takehomes weren't a thing.

[Henchman21]

What year?

[ghaff]

2010.

It didn't hurt that the person in question ran the products group. (And I went to the same school as the ultimate hiring manager.)

People obviously have different experiences at different companies but networks matter a lot in many cases whether a lot of folks like it or not.

Things still took a few months to coordinate meetings and interviews but it was still the only job I (sort of) applied for.