Pretty soon we'll be seeing headlines like "Hacking riding a bicycle"..
Since you asked for it:
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/gonzalez/Teaching/Phys7221/v...
David Jones tries to create an unrideable bicycle (and nearly fails).
Hacking the Hiring Process
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#12(more details follow) You should not hire people that do any of the things you ask. They are giving their valuable services away for free - since your company exists to make money, your employees giving their time so freely is likely to affect your profitability. People thinking about applying - Reconsider. The company is too cheap to pay for good work - they extract what they need from interviews. Its likely that yo…
Possible solution: Pay the candidates for the time they spent working on your problems in the interview.
Though I doubt this is a problem in interviews. But asking for a solution even before the interview will skew your distribution of appliciants, like you point out.
Not sure if this is a bad thing --- you want to hire people for whom solving your problems is easy.
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#13Using some test like this to rate applicants probably only points out a weakness in communication skills, but is better than just slamming through random resumes. A well-written cover letter should easily answer the first two (and listed as most important to twilio in the article as the folks building the team) points listed. I think it is also entirely NOT scalable. What if you get 1000 submissions? In my area of th…
Please keep me informed, if you hit on anything. I like your way of thinking through it.
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#14(more details follow) You should not hire people that do any of the things you ask. They are giving their valuable services away for free - since your company exists to make money, your employees giving their time so freely is likely to affect your profitability. People thinking about applying - Reconsider. The company is too cheap to pay for good work - they extract what they need from interviews. Its likely that yo…
Possible solution: Pay the candidates for the time they spent working on your problems in the interview. Though I doubt this is a problem in interviews. But asking for a solution even before the interview will skew your distribution of appliciants, like you point out. Not sure if this is a bad thing --- you want to hire people for whom solving your problems is easy.
It is a problem for freelancers - people always ask for free solutions to real problems and various ways. Candidate employees are in the same situation, but during the worst possible time - the interview.
As you said, you want to hire people for whom solving your problems is easy. Keep in mind that your problems are not unique and probably already have a solution, so you really need someone that.....woops...almost gave it away ;)
Re: Hacking the Hiring Process
#15(more details follow) You should not hire people that do any of the things you ask. They are giving their valuable services away for free - since your company exists to make money, your employees giving their time so freely is likely to affect your profitability. People thinking about applying - Reconsider. The company is too cheap to pay for good work - they extract what they need from interviews. Its likely that yo…
we're talking about 10 minutes of coding here, not actually building some core functionality for a company that could be extracted from the interview process
startup are by definition cheap, so if you want to work for one you better come prepared for that. working in a small team is like adding someone to the family, so knowing how you think and solve problems - and what your level of initiative is - is crucial
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Possible solution: Pay the candidates for the time they spent working on your problems in the interview. Though I doubt this is a problem in interviews. But asking for a solution even before the interview will skew your distribution of appliciants, like you point out. Not sure if this is a bad thing --- you want to hire people for whom solving your problems is easy.
It is a problem for freelancers - people always ask for free solutions to real problems and various ways. Candidate employees are in the same situation, but during the worst possible time - the interview. As you said, you want to hire people for whom solving your problems is easy. Keep in mind that your problems are not unique and probably already have a solution, so you really need someone that.....woops...almost ga…
Yes. Though drafting a cover letter and tweaking your resume also takes some time (not to mention the research).