> because it sounds hard to me to show off (adequately) skills I've spent decades acquiring with less than a day's worth of aimless work
So you would be against a developer test too then?
> (e.g. cooking, acting, music) will expect you to do it live, on the spot.
Fair enough. So the developer equivalent should be a 1 hour technical interview, with perhaps a coding exercise on a computer within that hour. I am happy with those. To reduce the pressure the interviewer could leave the room for 10 mins while you code something. It is the do 4 hours work in your own time for a chance to get an interview or get to the next round that bugs me. And in reality I'd spend 8 just to maximize the chance of getting the job.
> your pet open-source project is a jQuery plugin that makes web page backgrounds sparkly
Yes there are sub divisions in the 'software developer' category. If you want a machine learning job you kind of have to demonstrate it one way or another. I argue that the option to show your existing code rather than do additional work on a made up problem is valuable.
So you would be against a developer test too then?
> (e.g. cooking, acting, music) will expect you to do it live, on the spot.
Fair enough. So the developer equivalent should be a 1 hour technical interview, with perhaps a coding exercise on a computer within that hour. I am happy with those. To reduce the pressure the interviewer could leave the room for 10 mins while you code something. It is the do 4 hours work in your own time for a chance to get an interview or get to the next round that bugs me. And in reality I'd spend 8 just to maximize the chance of getting the job.
> your pet open-source project is a jQuery plugin that makes web page backgrounds sparkly
Yes there are sub divisions in the 'software developer' category. If you want a machine learning job you kind of have to demonstrate it one way or another. I argue that the option to show your existing code rather than do additional work on a made up problem is valuable.