What kind of pre-screening would you combine with the on site programming challenge? To me this seems like much more of a time commitment and much more biased against certain types of candidates than a similarly scoped take home test.
I've done a number of on site interviews in my career and they were typically not in my home city or even home country. They often involved flights and hotels plus time off work beyond the interview day for travel time. As a single guy at the time a small number of these was manageable but it seems like much more of an obstacle than a take home test for anyone with family or childcare commitments.
You mentioned in your first article having interviewed with 30 companies over 4 months. That would obviously be impossible for anyone currently employed if they all involved a full day on site. Most full day on site leet code style interviews involve some pre screening so that only promising candidates go through the full on site.
Would you pre screen with an online leet code style problem?
It looks like these articles were written pre covid? How would you adapt the process to a more remote friendly world? Is there a variation of this that could be done remotely that wouldn't look a lot like a take home test with a tighter deadline?
I've done a number of on site interviews in my career and they were typically not in my home city or even home country. They often involved flights and hotels plus time off work beyond the interview day for travel time. As a single guy at the time a small number of these was manageable but it seems like much more of an obstacle than a take home test for anyone with family or childcare commitments.
You mentioned in your first article having interviewed with 30 companies over 4 months. That would obviously be impossible for anyone currently employed if they all involved a full day on site. Most full day on site leet code style interviews involve some pre screening so that only promising candidates go through the full on site.
Would you pre screen with an online leet code style problem?
It looks like these articles were written pre covid? How would you adapt the process to a more remote friendly world? Is there a variation of this that could be done remotely that wouldn't look a lot like a take home test with a tighter deadline?