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    [OC] As an indie studio, we recently hired a software developer. This was the flow of candidates
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    [OC] As an indie studio, we recently hired a software developer. This was the flow of candidates

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    2. UserSleepy on

      What is considered a late submission? I would assume submissions are accepted or not, do this is new to me.

    3. ciarandeceol1 on

      It’s a bit strange the initial phone call is so far down the chain. Is there a reason this doesn’t happen at the start? Also I’m curious how that one candidate used AI to reply on the phone!

    5. I_Poop_Sometimes on

      How did someone use AI to answer the phone screening? Or was it more that they revealed they’d used AI to get through the previous steps.

    9. SimpsonMaggie on

      A Sankey diagram at least with this layout doesn’t fit the data very well.

      The data is somewhat interesting, the visualization in my opinion isn’t beautiful though.

    10. Mag_Flux on

      Congrats. You all are part of the problem of companies giving take home assignments thinking it’s an acceptable practice. Furthermore giving them before you’ve even had the decency to have a phone chat with them.

    11. yttropolis on

      I’m surprised so many people did the take-home. Pretty much everyone I know in tech immediately disregard any application that sends a take-home round.

    12. Vastus29 on

      absolute dog behaviour making them do a take home BEFORE an initial call when you only have 34 candidates to go through.

    14. trooooppo on

      “not available immediately”

      Fun story,
      I once worked for a company with a contract requiring 2 months notice plus 2 extra weeks just to review your resignation. Total nonsense, especially for an intern like me.
      When I decided to quit, I realized no company wanted to wait that long for a junior hire. So, I applied elsewhere without mentioning that “detail.”

      One company told me they needed someone “yesterday.” I nailed the interviews, got the offer and guess what:

      The contract they sent had the exact same restrictive clause. They were desperate to hire fast but used a contract designed to make leaving nearly impossible.

      P.S. meanwhile, they could fire me with only a 2 week notice

    16. Aururai on

      It’s funny that you list “used ai to reply” because I’m 1000% sure you use ai to reply to them, especially when rejected.