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Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control
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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Multiple hour-long interviews I'm actually fine with. It's not ideal, but in that case at least the company is also spending resources on the process.
Homework / pre-interview projects that take more than a hour is unreasonable, to me. I have public repositories / commits I can share with you if you want to see how I write code.
I don't want them to see my hobby code, it's far worse than my professional code.
I recommend having a public portfolio. You needn't have all your hobby code be public, but I think having source you've written available is an advantage.
When I was doing interviews, I definitely looked at GitHub (etc.) profiles of they were listed on the resume. I even found at least one indirectly -- either from their email or LinkedIn.
I like to point people at my accepted patched to open source software (Git and a Haskell library).