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I would love to, but my coworkers expect me to be synchronous. They do async, but I'm always supposed to be sync with five nines availability.

Looks like it's time to go job-hunting again, but I hate job interviews. Dammit.

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At the end of the day your mental health is worth a lot more than a few interviews ;)

Interviewing generally has a significantly negative impact on your mental health... but at least it's temporary.

You should try and change their expectations. Often times it's not because they want to take advantage of you, they may just think you can handle distractions better than they can.

I recently tried to bring up the fact that our new management and various members of our team all seem to have different expectations for responses via different mediums and that maybe we should document some company or team-wide guidelines for expectations.

I was told it is not valuable by the new management.

Sometimes, they will take advantage of you, even if just through ignorance.

>I would love to, but my coworkers expect me to be synchronous. They do async, but I'm always supposed to be sync with five nines availability. Looks like it's time to go job-hunting again, but I hate job interviews. Dammit.

I hate interviewing too, but don't let that stop you! Learning to be great at things we avoid/dislike improves us as human beings. It is important to be happy with the work we do.

Good luck on the job search. You'll likely make more money in the end with the new gig. Start today!

If only job interviews could be async!

Companies have actually done that, and it's worse: They're the "homework" interviews.

I don't mind "homework" interviews, they let me collect my thoughts and put together something representative of my work. It's easy to ship a complete (toy) product for a trivial problem, show unit tests, documentation, written communication skills, etc.

Much better than a timed coding challenge in my book. It's only bad when the problem isn't you know, a toy. Sometimes you have to reply with your consulting rate.

I wouldn't mind the homework interviews if they paid me to take them. In fact, on-sites should be paid also.

I'm hiring for our team. All of the feedback I've gotten from candidate was that it's fantastic because of the take home interview. No need to sweat and tremble over whiteboard questions.

Do you prefer those?

As a practical matter, I'd probably prefer a take home assignment OVER an in person interview. However, doing both would be a non-starter, that's too much work.

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