Seeing a lot more companies doing a "paid sprint" where you work at a company for a little while instead of whiteboard interviews. Seems like a vastly superior way to hire.
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4) Doesn’t compensate employees adequately for vastly increased risk profile relative to traditional employment, since most people offering this anchor to employee salaries rather than e.g. short-term consulting rates (the proper comparable).
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That's true; I'm thinking juniors that don't have a job yet, not mid-level engineers jumping from one to another
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This is what internships and co-ops are for. Since the worker is still nominally a student, there is a way for both company and worker to "break up" when the term ends, with low reputation risk to either party. If there is a good fit, company offers a perm. job.
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Remote companies almost always do the paid sprint thing with the caveat that the paid trial is something that can be done on the side while still employed. That’s key. In my experience this has always provided a great oppt to make sure there’s a fit on both sides.
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I do like "paid sprint" for hiring, but if and only if it can be done part-time, during off hours, without quitting your current full-time job. Automattic offers that option, for example.
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100%. It's also important to have an interview process that is consistent across interviewees. Working on whatever tickets happen to be top of the stack on a sprint introduces tons of variance. So, even ignoring adverse selection, it will probably produce worse results.
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P.S., was always bummed that Starfighter didn't get everyone and their cousin using work-sample tests for interviews. :(
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Respectfully disagree only on point 1. Wouldn’t a failed tenure of a week just be omitted from a resume?
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Why not just stop viewing resumes conventionally. In this case, there are stories behind the short employment, interview and learn about it. I don't know... Learn, adapt, evolve and repeat...
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