One Company's Week-Long Interview Process

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One Company's Week-Long Interview Process

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 10, 2012 @04:53AM 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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The real downside. by spinozaq · 2012-09-10 04:55 · Score: 5, Funny

Is that you're programming in Ruby on Rails...
1. Re:The real downside. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-10 05:28 · 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 · 2012-09-10 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If you do pair-programming with you best bud it is brogramming.
Significant other by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-10 04:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Where do I send my significant other's resume? I can use a vacation.
1. Re:Significant other by flibbidyfloo · 2012-09-10 05:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Can I just send my significant other? I need a vacation.
2. Re:Significant other by Darinbob · 2012-09-10 10:08 · 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.
Re:I've done simular... by Kenja · 2012-09-10 05:21 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Agile methodology... by Reasonable+Facsimile · 2012-09-10 05:26 · Score: 5, Funny

With one-week sprints.
Re:Ugh, Ruby by Y2K+is+bogus · 2012-09-10 05:55 · 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
Re:Any AFRICAN programmers? by reebmmm · 2012-09-10 06:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Because he read some place that African trolls are starving?