Interview Tips
1 min readPanel interviews and take-home tasks
Edwuma Team
A panel wants the same story from every person in the room. A take-home task needs a finished answer and a clock you actually keep.
Many employers split the process. You may meet several people at once, then do a written task or a short presentation. Treat them as one process with two kinds of evidence.
In a panel
Answer the person who asked, then look at the others when you give the result. Do not try to impress every function in one story. If someone challenges a number, explain how you measured it instead of switching to a new example.
On a take-home task
- Read the time limit and keep it. A perfect answer two days late is a no.
- State your assumption in the first lines if the brief is vague.
- Show the answer first, then the working. Reviewers are tired.
Ask what the task is meant to prove if they did not say. You are allowed to decline a task that asks for free client work with no time box. A reasonable exercise is short and about a sample problem.