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Would your rather that they have you come on-site and perform the coding challenge for half the day, then continue their normal interview process for the other half the day?

Or worse, go through a normal 5-6hr interview loop doing random questions on the whiteboard?

I think their approach is much more flexible and approachable. The overall time commitment is the same either way.

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You can achieve a mutual understanding during the initial technical (not HR) phone screen. This approach eliminates the candidate's ability to ask questions before a multi hour commitment. The traditional phone screen is important. Most questions cannot be answered by HR.

I have a much better understanding a company after the question portion of a half hour phone screen than I can get from searching the web for information about a company.