Ask HN: What's the most interesting technical screening you've encountered?

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2 years ago

There's always a bunch of discourse around the right ways to screen candidates for technical abilities. Arguments around if algorithm challenges (LeetCode, Hackerrank) or whiteboarding accurately judge people's abilities. Often I see questions around if the challenge really reflects the day to day job well, and if they are game-able with books like cracking the coding interview gaining popularity

I've also heard horror stories with take home projects that require multiple days of work, generally unpaid, and in the least charitable scenarios feel exploitative and like the company is just getting free labor.

So I was wondering what are alternatives that actually work? Some interesting examples I've encountered over the years include:

- Praetorian's Tech Challenges - https://www.praetorian.com/challenges/

- Fly.io's Gossip Glomers - https://fly.io/dist-sys/

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