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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (www.wired.com)
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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control::Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers but after mass layoffs the industry's culture has shifted. Engineers say that getting hired can require days of work on unpaid assignments.

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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Multiple hour-long interviews I'm actually fine with. It's not ideal, but in that case at least the company is also spending resources on the process.

Homework / pre-interview projects that take more than a hour is unreasonable, to me. I have public repositories / commits I can share with you if you want to see how I write code.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't want them to see my hobby code, it's far worse than my professional code.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I recommend having a public portfolio. You needn't have all your hobby code be public, but I think having source you've written available is an advantage.

    When I was doing interviews, I definitely looked at GitHub (etc.) profiles of they were listed on the resume. I even found at least one indirectly -- either from their email or LinkedIn.

    I like to point people at my accepted patched to open source software (Git and a Haskell library).

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