Do you think potential candidates should be reimbursed in some form for taking assessments that are required by the employer in order to be considered for employment?
Also, should this be available for only job candidates who are not considered for the position?
Or should it go for every job candidate, even the ones that get the position?
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Absolutely agreed. However, hiring managers need to deal with the employees on the market today. Should we simply stop hiring until the educational problems are solved? Could be a while.
Speaking as both a software developer and a sometime hiring manager or hiring consultant: Yes absolutely.
As a developer, if you give me something to " take home ", I expect to be paid an hourly rate for it. It doesn’t really matter if the work is going to be used thereafter or if it’s throw away. The employer gets valuable information, and I’ve spent time focused on their project to the exclusion of all else.
As a hiring manager or consultant, if I can’t get a handle on your skill set sufficient to justify the risk of a 90-day trial relationship (pretty common in the state I live in, here in the United States) within a one hour conversation, then I’ve done something wrong. Interviews I’ve led or otherwise been a part of don’t tend to last more than 15 or 20 minutes unless we really hit it off and start talking about 3d printing or something.
Note that everything I’m talking about refers to technical interviews. I don’t do the HR stuff.
I agree, see my other reply on this post. Assessments ARE sometimes necessary, however. In my field, we get a lot of self-taught software developers. I’ve had times where I think the candidate can do the job but can’t quite put a pin in it - but the team needs a warm seat. That’s when I pull out something stupid like FizzBuzz or a palindrome detector and ask them to pair program it with me, in the time span of the interview. If I have a choice, nobody will ever see a take-home assessment from me. I hated them when I was a junior, what kind of person would I be if I handed them out?