Make the 4h assignment paid $100-$200, as a token of appreciation and respect. Everyone's time is money.
Furthermore, that assignment should ideally be something you can use internally.
Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it
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> The thing with 4hr technical assignments is that you're saying no to anyone with kids, which I'm going to venture applies to more senior people than juniors. Completely agree here - like a fool I recently went through an entire day's worth interviews for a role (hello Stripe recruiters!!) that required both me and my wife taking PTO, with her looking after the kids while I talked to one junior dev after another abo…
As something of a counterpoint, a literal 4-hour assignment isn't that bad--especially as an alternative to a day of interviews. If they give you the assignment and it's immediately obvious that it's actually a 20+ hour assignment, you can always just walk. When I worked for a technology analyst company, we would ask for writing samples--which most potential hires would already have. But, if someone didn't, they'd ha…
If I'm looking at one place, I'd agree with you. As a senior I get multiple companies interested in me. If I want to evaluate 8 different positions (not unreasonable with somebody of decades of experience), you're asking me to invest 32 hours in your simple 4 hour test.
Hard pass.
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The Great Rift Valley Software Company[0] is a small corporation that allowed me to use a bit of my retirement money without tax penalties. [0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com
Could you expand on the tax side of that a bit? This is the first time I've heard of using a personal retirement account to pay business expenses without tax penalties, and I'm not finding any relevant hits on Google.
I think you can do something similar with Real Estate Investment trusts (REITs) depending on your country of citizenship.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investment_trust#U...
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I'm currently a Staff 2 at VMware making that much doing DevOps for multiple SaaS services.
Not directly connected to the discussion but I was wondering what kind of lifestyle can be with such salary. Is it like from 9am to 5pm or you work much more than that time? Do you in genearal think that you are overworking or not? Is your working environment stressful? Thank you.
I work 40-55 hours a week and my house is paid off. There are busy times and slow times.