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Lots of companies perform rigorous assessment tests for high profile or high paying jobs. IT is not the exception.


If you get to the point where you are going to give an assignment, you have somebody that you believe could do a job that probably pays very well. Go ahead and give the assignment, but also be respectful and pay them for their time.


The assignment is an assessment though, it isn't actual business work. I've seen before this suggestion that companies are trying to get free work out of candidates, but I find that really hard to believe.

I don't know if you're suggesting that interviews should assign actual tickets in an interview, but that seems nearly impossible to do in practice. I've never got back work from an interview or assessment that was anything near production code - nor would I expect to. It's to get a sense of the level of their real world coding skills are since there is such a variance between developers.


You pay them for the time to complete your testing materials. It ensures that your test is not overly lengthy and it's more likely to be reviewed by someone and not used as an intake filter because you are investing in the candidate.


I genuinely don't get this mindset at all. Even if they were to pay you, they're hardly going to pay you very much to do some coding assessment that's a few hours work.


It's not actual business work but you are asking for actual time from the person's life. When it's an non-trivial amount of time, you should compensate them fairly.


This feels mad to me. Companies don't pay people to go through the application process to work for them.


Generally only for new grads.


Not at all. People coming from different industries or stepping into a new type of function description in a different company.


Replace new grad with inexperienced.


We ate horse steak in the 80-90’s at Home, in Belgium. Almost every butcher still sells it nowadays. “100gr van ‘t perdje” (100 gram of horse ham)


About the names of these products, horse meat is traditionally called "hamburgerkött" in Swedish. It literally translates to "hamburger meat" (related to the city of Hamburg, and not the dish hamburger).


> Speaking of electrification, ..

Probably because the housing stock in continental Europe is older and therefor much more often retrofitted with modern electricity. Newly build houses won't have that problem. Although I'm not aware of fire regulations having an effect on the number of outlets in a room, in my region (Belgium).


Real estate, employee talent, brand value, business knowledge, .. You could do a whole lot with that.


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We host our own gitlab runners. It gives us more punch for less € and it was relatively easy to set up and is easy to maintain/upgrade.


Just ‘tandpasta’ :)


This is one of those articles I regularly revisit. It is so fascinating to see that progress is not necessarily a straight and always forward moving process.


Oh, but you can see those from time to time Belgium. Largely adopted? No, not at all.


Cube has one https://www.cube.eu/en/2020/bikes/urban/hyde/cube-hyde-pro-b... , I bought the 2018 model it's really nice and convenient to drive. Going back to traditional chain once you drove one of these may be similar to automatic vs manual gear shift in a car, why would you? Note: I'm a casual cyclist.


Nice one, thank you. Love the 2021 models colours.


Nicolai make some nice ones


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