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authorBen Sima <ben@bsima.me>2018-07-18 13:26:59 -0700
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After doing one-too-many interview take-home tests, I decided to collect them
all here, in one convenient place for a prospective hiring manager to see :P
+
+*Why you too should share your interview tests:*
+
+Companies send out standardized tests to hiring candidates because it amortizes
+the time-cost of evaluating individual candidates. That is, instead of spending
+X hours per candidate evaluating their unique code, instead the give everyone a
+standard test and spend just a few minutes to see if the candidate did their
+test correctly. This spreads out the cost ("amortizes") over the candidates such
+that the business no longer incurs this cost.
+
+This makes perfect business sense, to be honest. The goo thing is that it works
+both ways: businesses can amortize the cost over candidates, and you (the
+candidate) can amortize your cost over all the businesses that you interview
+with. Simply save all the interview tests you complete in a single place and
+share it with hiring managers when they ask for a code sample.