

I’ve never seen any interview as invasive as this, but i think simple take home assignments are useful to weed out people who don’t have basic skills for the role, can’t read instructions clearly, and/or don’t care enough for the role. It avoids me spending 30 minutes to an hour interviewing them to just reject them.
The roles i interview for are mid level devops based, and we’ve found that the best way to do this is to provide the candidate a simple git repo with 2 branches, which can’t be merged due to a merge conflict of two text files; no coding required. Just asking the candidate to resolve the merge conflict and write a README with the steps taken is enough to have more than half of the candidates unable to complete the task. If we interviewed all those candidates first, and then had to reject them, it would probably be 1 full working day per month in aggregate that would be utterly wasted.


























huh, really?? this post and the original is showing in [email protected] for me, and going there, I see two posts with the same link:
Original: https://lemmy.ml/post/41458701
Repost (this post): https://lemmy.ml/post/41482621
I don’t see this post in [email protected] at all, even when checking on lemmy.world directly. I don’t think this is a federation issue.