Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Coding Challenges for Recruiters

entrevistame.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 13 posts

Re: Show HN: Coding Challenges for Recruiters

#4

Post by chrismatheson »

TamDenholm wrote: post #3

Reading the title, i genuinely thought we were turning the tables on recruiters and having them complete some tests for us developers so we can assess if they know what they're talking about or not. I got excited for a second.

+1 yup. I bet it would be super interesting to see which of those "We help screen candidates even before you see CV's" agencies would refuse/fail some simple questions about the field

Re: Show HN: Coding Challenges for Recruiters

#5

Post by pedro596 »

TamDenholm wrote: post #3

Reading the title, i genuinely thought we were turning the tables on recruiters and having them complete some tests for us developers so we can assess if they know what they're talking about or not. I got excited for a second.

At least a couple of questions for recruiters would be awesome. It is so bad to be "evaluated" by someone that doesn't know what is talking about...

Re: Show HN: Coding Challenges for Recruiters

#6

Post by cranium »

TamDenholm wrote: post #3

Reading the title, i genuinely thought we were turning the tables on recruiters and having them complete some tests for us developers so we can assess if they know what they're talking about or not. I got excited for a second.

It would actually be a good idea to test whether a headhunter is genuinely interested in having a discussion with you or is just spamming emails hoping to fish something.

Re: Show HN: Coding Challenges for Recruiters

#7

Post by onion2k »

Having watched the video it looks like the expectation is that the recruiters would define tests. I've worked with a lot of recruiters and very few would be able to write a coding test well.

Also, it doesn't look like the recruiter has any opportunity to check that their test is correct, and there's no way for the candidate to test their solution works, so if there's any issue with the way the test has been defined (eg the test was created using a signature of input:string -> string by mistake) the candidate simply can't pass. If I was taking that test and failed because the test software was incorrect I would not give the company I was applying to a second chance. Applying for a job is stressful enough without that sort of thing happening.

Lastly, as a suggestion, I'd add a feature to search StackOverflow for the function the user has entered. There'll be a lot of cases where that happens.

Re: Show HN: Coding Challenges for Recruiters

#9

Post by mrrusof »

onion2k wrote: post #7

Having watched the video it looks like the expectation is that the recruiters would define tests. I've worked with a lot of recruiters and very few would be able to write a coding test well. Also, it doesn't look like the recruiter has any opportunity to check that their test is correct, and there's no way for the candidate to test their solution works, so if there's any issue with the way the test has been defined (…

Thanks
Post reply on HN