[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":514},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-7428156":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":5,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":102,"maker_in_thread":234,"shape":247,"grid":252,"attempts":477,"same_week":478,"maker_shows":339,"maker_hidden":506,"reader_version":507,"card":508},"7428156","remoteinterview.io","Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? We've built this","title","Show HN: Tired of doing coding interviews on Skype? 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The usual action after shortlisting from codility is to have a real-time\u002Fone-to-one conversation and to…",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"Companies and interviewers hiring software developers","inferred",[60,64],{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"7428476","pbhjpbhj","Speed of response is surely a valid metric. The \"upvote\" I noticed was something along the lines of \"very good string manipulation\". 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Surely gonna lessen the hassle of conducting a remote coding interview.",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"7428558","netcan","I would argue that electricians are far more commodified and that the trend this is a part of is the opposite of commodification. An electrician is usually licensed, which means…",{"value":117,"source":106,"evidence":118},"Group comment and rating feature is useful",[119],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"7428694","quarterwave","I'm guessing it will take a bit of work to support multiple languages\u002Fframeworks\u002Fplatforms. A simpler solution may be to allow an interviewer to spin up a machine with the…",[124,139,146,153],{"value":125,"source":106,"evidence":126},"Speed-based rating encourages shallow evaluation of candidates",[127,131,135],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"7428313","afandian","I've written code in a few job interviews (and been in the opposite position, asking someone to write code in an interview). In all cases they were more interested (rightly so)…",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"7428417","bradleyland","I once worked with some very, very successful direct marketing people, and along the way gathered some stellar advice on common advertising tropes. One of these is, \"don't talk…",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"7428404","antocv","And so the commodityfication of \"the coder\" begins. Imagine if you wanted to hire an electrician, but before you let them into your house, you ask to follow around to see them…",{"value":140,"source":106,"evidence":141},"Does not solve the hard part of evaluating candidates",[142],{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"7428561","rguzman","A few similar tools have popped up recently. Like this one, they look pretty good, and like improvements over skype et. al. However, they seem to solve the easy part of the…",{"value":147,"source":106,"evidence":148},"Pulling candidates out of their own environment is unfair",[149],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"7428372","benjamincharity","My biggest problem with coding interviews is not the actual communication tool (Skype\u002Fetc) but rather that the developer is pulled completely out of their environment. 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