How to Hire Great Engineers
So much nope to this.<p>&gt; They would put you to the test for like 2-3 days to see how you perform<p>And pay you. And give you some level of feedback along the way, not just &quot;here make some salads&quot; and then &quot;nah nevermind&quot; after 3 days of hard work. And you get to work with them and decide if you like working there too. It&#x27;s not a one-way street like these bullshit homework interview pipelines.<p>Unlike in food, you&#x27;re not going to be productive with real code for a few months. Unlike in food, just doing the coding is only 40-60% of the job. Unlike in food, it&#x27;s hard to improvise code in a language, framework, test-style, knowledge-domain, or other toolset you may not be familiar with. Hiring for restuarants is not a relevant comparison.<p>This just seems like the typical unpaid homework assignment--which is usually a couple softball algorithm questions mixed with some arbitrary glue-code riddles--with some CI-flavored slop on top.