But you confirmed to the company that it is okay, by completing the assignment. That's why companies assign this kind of homework - because you and thousands of others gladly do the work.
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
There’s also a lot of people that think the world owes them something. Why do they owe you a response? OP agreed to do an assignment did but did they get the company to agree to call them back on a set date? A good job is like a hot girl they don’t have time to text back all the rejects
Are you serious? It is a common courtesy to at least reply with a generic email.
You're both right: noone is 'owed' a response but ghosting is still discourteous.
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#23Ghosting whether it’s with jobs or women, always means one thing: You were not the top candidate.
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#24I have a rule that I refuse to participate in hiring processes that require unequal investment (of time/money) from me and the company. If the hiring process requires 2 minutes of the company's time for every 1 hour of yours they are pretty much guaranteed to waste your time. I've made exceptions to this rule before for what I thought were good reasons and deeply regretted it every single time . I no longer believe t…
I will do it after they paid me for it. You as an individual are a business as well, somehow people never get that mindset (until burned a couple of times)
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#25Maybe you can put it on github/write a blog about it and refer to it on your next job interview, they might hire you on the spot instead of sending you home with another assignment.
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#26I don't think coding exercises are going away any time soon. There is something to be said to be able to solve a problem without having interviewers staring at you over video, and being able to use your preferred tools and language.
That being said, if you want to avoid having a large imbalance in risk/reward, I would suggest talking compensation before agreeing to submit yourself to a large time investment. At least that way you know why you are putting in the time investment that comes with take home assignments. There's nothing worse that putting in a significant effort into the interview process only to discover your compensation expectations would never be met.
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#27They are much better than livecoding. I take 8 hour home assignment over 1 hour livecode torture.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you serious? It is a common courtesy to at least reply with a generic email.
You're both right: noone is 'owed' a response but ghosting is still discourteous.
People get frustrated by ghosting because they spend all this time wondering the cause when it’s very simple. They can’t come to the simple truth that they weren’t good enough compared to other options
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#29I've been in both sides, and what they did to you was horrible. Just last week I had a call with someone who did the take home assigment very badly, but I wanted to give him some feedback and showed him a better solution.
Nonetheless, I can't think of a better solution for this. Hiring someone is a big commitment (for both parts), so I want to be completely sure that I am hiring the right person. How do you that? How do you measure the quality of the other person in an area such as IT where it's so easy to lie about knowledge and experience?
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#306 hours is too little, Google will make you practice algorithms for months and still people will willingly do it.
Google doesn’t require you to do that in any Google-exclusive way. You can take that prep to an Amazon or Facebook interview.
If it were a ship building company asking you to do 6 months of ship building business logic to get a job that would be different, for example.