I hate assignments. I hated them while applying for jobs, and I hate giving them while trying to hire someone.
It's basically free work with no guarantee of employment. It's unfair to make people work so much, often people assign 2-3 days worth of work for such interviews.
Is there any other practical alternative though? I would love to know everyone's thoughts on this
If you are hiring for tech, I feel LLD or Machine Coding rounds are most relevant to the role. I never liked to take home assignments and earlier I opted for assignment rounds but these days I totally denied putting 3-4 days after work efforts in attempting it.
That's a different challenge altogether for my team, we don't have a CTO or tech folks. Can't judge what we don't understand.
Quick rant: Why do I have to submit a 10 slider with 3 rounds of interviews for a company I had never heard about 5 days ago?
This is my first attempt at switching jobs and it's so freaking painful. Is something like an assignment neces...
Hey guys.
While I know that there is this ridiculous practice of getting candidates who are applying for upper middle to top management roles to do an assignment, has anyone who has done that experienced 'being taken advantage of'.
The...
Hi Wanted an opinion on how do you all tackle the assignment bit when it comes to assignments as part of hiring processes. One, how regular or normal is it at senior positions ? And two, I feel that a lot of times they just ask you to d...
So a company reached out to me for the PM role (I have 3.5+ years of experience in Product Mgmt)
The assignment they gave is a problem statement in their own domain and its basically to propose a strategy to ensure company is a leader ...
