> ~90-95% of candidates chose the takehome test
I was expecting "3. submit a code sample" to be the overwhelming winner here - did anybody choose that? Seems like a no-brainer, since it's already done...
I was expecting "3. submit a code sample" to be the overwhelming winner here - did anybody choose that? Seems like a no-brainer, since it's already done...
On the employer side, I would prefer the take home assignment over existing code, unless the existing code was super high quality or highly relevant to the company.
As others have pointed out, there are a lot of problems:
- Many engineers don't write code outside of work and so don't have much code they can show off without breaching their employer's trust
- Those that do often don't have recent code.
- Those that have recent, personal code to show off have often written it to accomplish some goal and the code isn't necessarily a great example they feel like showing off
Really, the only people I've seen have good code samples are those who do extensive open-source work. And for those people, I'm probably already aware of that work when I checked their resume + opened their github.