> these teams are hired by technical interviews.
The "audition project" is a trend story with, from what I can see, very little empirical evidence to back it up.
The problem with the "audition project" is precisely that it has the same inconvenient economics as dating, finding an apartment, or job hunting/hiring in general, only more so. There is greatly increased "opportunity cost." This alone can explain the lack of data. It might be like a lot of "better" tests -- it might be a better way to gauge suitability on an instance-ti-instance basis, but the economics preclude it from being widely used.
The problem with the "audition project" is precisely that it has the same inconvenient economics as dating, finding an apartment, or job hunting/hiring in general, only more so. There is greatly increased "opportunity cost." This alone can explain the lack of data. It might be like a lot of "better" tests -- it might be a better way to gauge suitability on an instance-ti-instance basis, but the economics preclude it from being widely used.