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sambeau on Jan 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interview Programming Problems Done Right

Why don't people pay candidates for a day's work and see how they do? It would be cheaper and a far better indicator of actual potential.

gcp on Jan 6, 2012 [–]

The administrative overhead of doing this would be immense, if it is even legal (at least in my country).

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