Interviewing

With the rapid increase in capability of coding assistants like Copilot, should they be banned from technical interviews?

… in which I weigh in on a sensitive debate from a uniquely privileged and blithely ignorant perspective.

At Teespring, we use a take-home test as part of our technical interview process. We've had very little push-back on this from candidates, so the level of antipathy towards take-home tests in some discussions was an enormous surprise. Most people viewed these tests as a waste of time, rude, disrespectful, or a combination of all three. Here's why we think they're great.