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You would think so. I decided to just sit in the lab for the rest of the day. Usually he bothers me a lot less because it's a 2 minute walk instead of 3 cubes down
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Maybe you're being too easy on him. I definitely pick and choose who I go to for questions based on the combined criteria of who will have the answer and won't be a condescending ass while doing it. Unfortunately, where I work, the first choice for the former is the last choice for the latter. Also, the other way around.
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We can be the 80 year old men in the office with mechanical keyboards, gaming mice, giant headsets, and those faggy gaming chairs that streamers use
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Fuck that.
This would be great for unemployed people but I'm sorry. I'm not going on a 2 hour contact just to interview with a company.
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It's obviously a lot more useful at lower levels. I wouldn't really expect senior devs to be going through this, much like I don't think interviewers should need to ask coding example questions in interviews of seniors.
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I was just given a stack of 34 resumes from soon-to-be graduates with a MS from a top university. The university is far enough away that the cost to bring them in for an in person interview is high. None of the students personally applied, we just got the stack from their academic dept in response to a request from us.
How would you guys sift through and pick which ones for the next process, and what would that process be?
How would you guys sift through and pick which ones for the next process, and what would that process be?
I assume most of the resumes are probably similar since I assume the university probably helps them craft it. So that would really make differentiating them difficult. Possibly see if any of them show that they have a passion for technology/programming as a hobby instead of just academically? But you may just need to schedule a quick phone interview if all the resumes look too similar with each candidate and dedicate a few days of your week to that process.
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I actually like that idea and wouldn't mind seeing my company try it out. I think finding a suitable project that is useful, generic enough to not require a week+ of training/learning time to be effective and able to be given out would be hard though. But look on the bright side from your perspective, instead of taking 1-4 hours doing a takehome test that is largely meaningless, you might spend 8 hours, possibly learn something technically new and getting a chunk of change out of it. If more companies did that at $100 an hour I could see myself perpetually interviewing at companies!!!