Which type of pre-onsite technical interview is the best for recruiting engineers?

Timed coding challenges, phone screens, and take home assignments; which do developers actually prefer and why?

Karina Chow
UX Collective
Published in
8 min readApr 20, 2021

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3 illustrations of a candidate interviewing via phone screen, online challenge, and take-home assessment.
Illustration made using Stubborn

Like many engineers, I’ve had a career full of horrible interviewing experiences, both as a candidate and an interviewer. As a candidate…

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