Optional Technical Exercise
Explore how optional take-home technical exercises can be used in hiring software engineers to better evaluate their programming skills. Understand the importance of clear scope, reasonable time commitment, and job relevance to make these tests fair and effective. This lesson guides you to design exercises that respect candidates’ time and replicate real job tasks, improving your hiring process and candidate experience.
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After the first interview, there’s the option of giving them a technical exercise to take and do at home and then submit it when they’re done. These take-home tests have been controversial, but they can often be useful. They’re optional because sometimes it’s already evident that the person can program well. They may have a solid resume full of senior positions at known and respected companies, or they may have a GitHub full of work that they’re actively ...