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One Company's Week-Long Interview Process

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-more-thing dept.

jfruh writes "What's the longest tech interview you've had to sit through — two hours? Eight? Ruby on Rails devs who want to work for Hashrocket need to travel to Florida and do pair-programming on real projects for a week before they can be hired. The upside is that you'll be put up in a beachfront condo for the week with your significant other; the downside is that you'll be doing real work for a week for little or no pay and no guarantee of a job slot."

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  1. The real downside. by spinozaq · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that you're programming in Ruby on Rails...

    1. Re:The real downside. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Trollolol. No one enjoys writing in PHP. You gave yourself away too easily, Rubyist.

    2. Re:The real downside. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you do pair-programming with you best bud it is brogramming.

  2. Significant other by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do I send my significant other's resume? I can use a vacation.

    1. Re:Significant other by flibbidyfloo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can I just send my significant other? I need a vacation.

    2. Re:Significant other by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just apply and hope for an interview. You don't need to actually do any work. At the end of the week just say "I was goofing off the whole time like it was a real job", then go home well rested.

  3. Re:I've done simular... by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is also the old Russian engineering philosophy, "never design a plane that can fly if you're in prisson".

    --

    "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
  4. Agile methodology... by Reasonable+Facsimile · · Score: 5, Funny

    With one-week sprints.

  5. Re:Ugh, Ruby by Y2K+is+bogus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bravo! You have made the beginning of my day!

    The title of my next newsletter:

    Ruby: A language designed by programmers for non-programmers

    Then followed by these illustrious titles:

    Ruby: Non-programming for Programmers
    Ruby: Unprogramming what you've learned about Programming
    Ruby: Lobotomy required
    Ruby: Brainfuck for the masses

  6. Re:Any AFRICAN programmers? by reebmmm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because he read some place that African trolls are starving?

  7. Re:This is too much by coinreturn · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seriously. I've been at companies that do all day interviews and those are pointless. Group after group of people come in and ask the people almost identical questions. If it takes you more than an hour or two to determine someone's skill and personality then you are probably doing it wrong. If someone asked me to spend a week working before they would even consider me I'd laugh and tell them to have a great day. If some company I never heard of asked me to book 5+ hours for an interview, I'd tell them no thanks as well, unless I was absolutely desperate. I have better things to do with my time.

    But what if the benefits of employment were fantastic? Like hot blondes give you blowjobs while you code?