Conventional technical interview (DSA, whiteboard architecture).

Then 1-2 day paid work trial.

Interestingly…no one has said no to the trial.

It turns out that people want to derisk their decision just as much, if not more.

jdlshore 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Were the people you were interviewing already unemployed? Work trials are harder when people are already employed. There can be legal issues as well as scheduling ones.

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mathgeek 8 hours ago | parent [-]

This will always be the problem with trials. Anyone with a job, often underemployed between software roles these days, will be excluded.

Still, it does benefit the hiring company, just not the applicant in these situations.

	▲	bayarearefugee 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Still, it does benefit the hiring company Not sure it benefits the hiring company when they are artificially reducing the pool of applicants to only people who don't already have jobs. Not that there's shame in not having a job, especially in today's market (shit happens, I'm sure lots of very qualified people are currently looking), but there are solid statistical reasons why social proof of already being employed is seen as a positive.

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broken-kebab 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How do you deal with onboarding, both technically, and legally if your eval period is 1-2 days? I mean unless you are a one-man team, and can just give all permissions yourself, and ignore legalities, it sounds way too short