16h ago · 8 min read · The hiring panel will never see the app That was the constraint I kept forgetting. I built a whole interview tool with wizards, timers, auto-save, keyboard shortcuts, colour-coded scores. The hiring panel gets none of that. They get a 7-page PDF atta...
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Apr 20 · 8 min read · The test nobody finishes Most take-home tech tests fail before the candidate writes a single line of code. They clone the repo. They run npm install. Something breaks. 45 minutes later, they're debugging a Ruby version mismatch, a missing CocoaPod, o...
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Apr 13 · 3 min read · I've been at ROOM for a while now, working across their platform. ROOM makes phone booths and meeting rooms for offices, and the software side is about making those physical spaces bookable, trackable, and manageable. We run a Rails API for the B2B p...
Join discussionApr 13 · 3 min read · I've been at ROOM for a while now, working across their platform. ROOM makes phone booths and meeting rooms for offices, and the software side is about making those physical spaces bookable, trackable, and manageable. We run a Rails API for the B2B p...
Join discussionApr 13 · 3 min read · I've been at ROOM for a while now, working across their platform. ROOM makes phone booths and meeting rooms for offices, and the software side is about making those physical spaces bookable, trackable, and manageable. We run a Rails API for the B2B p...
Join discussionApr 13 · 3 min read · I've been at ROOM for a while now, working across their platform. ROOM makes phone booths and meeting rooms for offices, and the software side is about making those physical spaces bookable, trackable, and manageable. We run a Rails API for the B2B p...
Join discussionApr 13 · 3 min read · I've been at ROOM for a while now, working across their platform. ROOM makes phone booths and meeting rooms for offices, and the software side is about making those physical spaces bookable, trackable, and manageable. We run a Rails API for the B2B p...
Join discussionApr 13 · 7 min read · The problem with "is this a 3 or a 4?" When I started building the hiring process for my squad at Hargreaves Lansdown, I knew I wanted a structured scorecard from day one. I wrote about the tech test itself in an earlier post. The test worked. The sc...
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Apr 6 · 10 min read · This is from the other side of the table I review React Native tech test submissions. I've seen what gets people hired and what gets them rejected. Most of the rejections aren't because the candidate can't code. They're because the candidate didn't s...
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Mar 23 · 15 min read · The moment I knew the clipboard had to go I had sat in waiting rooms like this enough times to know exactly where it broke down. Usually it was a Spanish-speaking patient. Sometimes it was someone else. But the problem was always the same — a front d...
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