DEV Community

Discussion on: Keep Calm And Just Say No To Coding Challenges

 
jmfayard profile image
Jean-Michel (jmfayard.dev) • Edited

But you are OK with the company wasting a 20 hours of research on each of the tens of candidates they have?

Besides the fact that companies are already currently wasting lots of time, indeed months to fill vacant positions, what you say would mean that the company is trying to play a numbers game instead of qualitative one, and that's very much her problem not mine.

Let's Put Some Dignity Back into Finding Software Work

Thread Thread
 
ghamadi profile image
Ghaleb

Are you serious? Saying no to all code challenges without actually seeing what the test is about, because you don't want to put in some hours of work is not playing the numbers game?

Pick a standard and stick to it man. You're interested in numbers when they're on the side of the candidate, not on the side of the company.

This is where I sign off. It's hard to have a meaningful conversation when the standards keep changing to suit the argument.

Thread Thread
 
jmfayard profile image
Jean-Michel (jmfayard.dev)

I am not sure where you got the impression that I am not serious when I say that developers are entitled to set their own rules, but OK, have a nice day.