On: Front End Developer – Interview Questions

[jhildings]

"A startup I worked for made the applicants do pair programming for two days. Needless to say, the people getting hired were very good."

How is this even possible for people that already have a job? Are they supposed to take two days vacation or do it in the weekend?

[thesimon → jhildings]

Good question.

I really don't know because I was only an intern, but I guess they took vacation days (law mandates minimum 20/year). But I also recall a discussion here on HN on this topic, where applicants (at a different company) were in invited to work on a weekend.

2 days is probably overkill for US-companies, but a bit of pair-programming on real problems seems a lot better than "Let's see if you memorized this trivia fact you'll never need in your job"

[jhildings → thesimon]

Yes it's good to collaborate of course, but two days of(non-paid?) work seems quite much for a candidate with a few years experience