We're very, very careful about wasting peoples' time. Most people who complete the sample projects spend an hour or so talking to someone about how the company works, what to expect with hiring, etc. We try and reciprocate on time spent with everyone. Some people don't want that, they'd rather just go off and do the thing, but it's important to us. It _also_ helps us get more completed projects from candidates, so there's a definite benefit beyond warm fuzzies.
That said, we don't have a high acceptance rate. We've noticed that there's a break point for most of these, if you normalize the scores there's a clump of people with >80% and then most are way below that. Depending on the role, and the intensity of the work sample, I think we probably select about 25-30% of completed projects to continue.
That said, we don't have a high acceptance rate. We've noticed that there's a break point for most of these, if you normalize the scores there's a clump of people with >80% and then most are way below that. Depending on the role, and the intensity of the work sample, I think we probably select about 25-30% of completed projects to continue.