from Gergely Orosz | by Gergely Orosz

"Take-home assignments, pair-programming tests, and the like are biased and, frankly, insulting to senior engineers like me. I have an impressive resume and great references: I shouldn't need to go through any of these. What do you think?" Dude, that would make it more biased.

People who never designed engineering interview loops always assume that getting rid of {stuff I don't personally like} is the way to go. It's not. Interview processes are full of tradeoffs and biases. It's a fine line to balance these & keep adopting. t.co/WN2AUPTu26

An example of what happens when you replace coding with reviewing existing GitHub code for seniors: You no longer collect the same signals for people. One person only has forks. The other adds tests a month later. Another has a private GH... Whoops. *More* biases & less signal.