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This is great, the approach I’ve seen work best in a couple orgs now is giving the candidate options. You can either walk us through and open source project you wrote, do a take home test, or do a live coding challenge.

There is a large diversity in how developers are effective. When you force people into one funnel you lose the rest of the ecosystem. Meet people where they are, the only metric that should matter is effectiveness

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Doesn't that make it harder to do an apples-to-apples comparison between candidates though?

This is the criticism I hear but I think it depends on how you look at engineering and bias in general. I just see different people with different skillsets and pick the best one for the team. I have yet to run into a situation where the ability to code was the determining factor between two candidates. I imagine it could happen but so far so good

Interesting take.

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