It's a pretty nice idea. That music is beyond horrible, however.
Payed $47 to musicbakery.com for that :(
Show HN: Recruit web developers by having them build a web app
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#12"Print the tweet given _its_ Id"
:). Will fix. Thanks
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#13Want to work here? Do work for us for free! Then maybe we'll hire you afterwards.
Great idea if you want to hire suckers.
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#15I think you'll have traction problems on the developer side. Doesn't matter what kind of job it is, you can be pretty much 100% guaranteed that the job will be listed on the company website without any of the extra hoops to jump through. Requiring someone to build a web app just to apply is a huge requirement. It's fine if you gave someone an interview, and this is the final step before you hire...but requiring someo…
It dosent have to be a complex web app. It's can be the same problems you would solve on topcoder if you need. but it can be more than that too.
Even those tests they give developers to do during the interview process are off-putting, especially given there's a talent shortage in many parts of the world. That said, good luck. I think this sort of thing will help most with the recruitment of graduate developers.
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#16Want to work here? Do work for us for free! Then maybe we'll hire you afterwards. Great idea if you want to hire suckers.
I agree with you. This trend in our field is really making me uncomfortable. Judge me on what I know and what I did before, no more, no less. Or, to make this even more futile, how about I ask the company to build a small app for me? Since I also want to know if I should work for them. If they think their main business is enough to judge them, then my past experience is equally enough. This is bordering ridiculing in my opinion.
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#17Want to work here? Do work for us for free! Then maybe we'll hire you afterwards. Great idea if you want to hire suckers.
That was my initial reaction when reading the title. Actually watching the demo video shows that expected work done is more akin to pre/post interview coding tests.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It dosent have to be a complex web app. It's can be the same problems you would solve on topcoder if you need. but it can be more than that too.
Even those tests they give developers to do during the interview process are off-putting, especially given there's a talent shortage in many parts of the world. That said, good luck. I think this sort of thing will help most with the recruitment of graduate developers.
Thanks ticks. Out of curiosity I'd love to know what do you think should be the best way to filter developers when you make a Job post. Puzzles, Hr questions(tell me something bad about yourself) and other questions like ('how many golf balls can you put in a mini van) dosen't seems to be the best way either.
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#19Want to work here? Do work for us for free! Then maybe we'll hire you afterwards. Great idea if you want to hire suckers.
OP here. Agree with this sentiment. Even I would not use cull.io to have candidates build a complex web app that would take days or even hours to build. I would use it as a tool to "Filter" candidates, not "Select" them. (It's amazing how the simplest of a coding challenge would filter all non-coding coders)
thanks for the review.
Re: Show HN: Recruit web developers by having them build a web app
#20Want to work here? Do work for us for free! Then maybe we'll hire you afterwards. Great idea if you want to hire suckers.
That was my initial reaction when reading the title. Actually watching the demo video shows that expected work done is more akin to pre/post interview coding tests.
Yes. Thanks for mentioning.