We recently tried a take home assignment between the phone interview and in person interview for our latest round of interns.
We judged the take home to be less than 1 hour and removed the “white boarding code” portion of the in person. The goal was to remove the nervous factor when whiteboarding code and allowing candidates to write code in a format, language, ide that they are comfortable in. We then discussed their code during the interview.
We think this lead to shorter in person interview durations and a less stressful experience for the candidates.
We’re going to try this for a few cycles of internships and see what happens.
I agree though about take home work before the first interviews.
We judged the take home to be less than 1 hour and removed the “white boarding code” portion of the in person. The goal was to remove the nervous factor when whiteboarding code and allowing candidates to write code in a format, language, ide that they are comfortable in. We then discussed their code during the interview.
We think this lead to shorter in person interview durations and a less stressful experience for the candidates.
We’re going to try this for a few cycles of internships and see what happens.
I agree though about take home work before the first interviews.