Evaluating the software engineering skills of job candidates often involves live coding sessions or take-home coding assignments, but both methods have major limitations.
Live coding sessions don’t reflect realistic work conditions. They only allow for the evaluation of relatively short code snippets and are susceptible to candidates’ emotional responses during the interview. Take-home assignments, on the other hand, are substantially time-consuming for both candidates and interviewers, slowing down the interview process, and leading to candidates abandoning the application process altogether.
Instead, a better approach might be code review assignments, which are less commonly used. However, code review assignments are perfect for evaluating candidates’ performance in a realistic work environment, saving time for both parties and allowing for deeper and more objective evaluation.
You will leave this talk with knowledge on:
- What code review assignments are
- How to implement code review assignments into your hiring process
- Insights on how code review assignments are able to evaluate candidates
