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I have done face-to-face calls with every plausible candidate. I prefer it and it's not hard to do. I get a quick read on the candidate, which is handy, but more importantly, I get to sell them on the job. And I get to demonstrate that that, unlike somebody who thinks that talking to interested people is a "waste [of] time", I'm interested in the candidates as people. And will remain interested in them as people afte…
I'd also prefer that I never got ghosted after an application or a coding challange and talk to a real person, but its such an effective tool for narrowing down candidates. There are places nowadays with maybe 300 or 400 engineers getting applications from tens of thousands of people, its easier than ever to apply for a job, and you need to thin the number of prospective candidates down with some heuristic. Coding qu…
[1] https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/slightly-less-awful-h...
[2] e.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/20151005181908/http://www.codefo...