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		nialo on March 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On asking job candidates to code I'd rather spend 8 hours programming than burn a full day on 5 whiteboard interviews the way Google does. More generally, I think the target should be to make the work sample test take a similar amount of time to the in person interview you'd have to do instead.

kafkaesq on March 15, 2016 [–]

The point is, they never wrote back.

That's just shabby and disrespectful, regardless of how many other candidates they're talking to, or how they evaluated this particular candidate.

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