Engineering video
0:59 · 14 August 2025
The speaker explains: sending a walkthrough video proves to recruiters and hiring managers that the challenge was completed, leveraging their pressure to hire and bypassing potential ego-driven disqualifications from evaluating developers.
Hear it at 0:11 →So, despite everything you said, I know developers will still do take home challenges because again, it's the only interview they get. So if I'm still going to do take home challenges, then what advice would you would you give me? You can try to make a walk through video of the application and and you send it with the email. And the reason for that is if you make a walk through video of the application, then the hiring manager and the recruiter both know that you completed the challenge.
And those are the people that are more likely to be on your side. Because sometimes developers and the people actually evaluating your code, they kind of compare themselves to you and they're like, oh, they're not a senior because I would have done this. And they're totally delusional, right? But because it's an ego move, they will sometimes be more likely to disqualify you even if you did a great job.
But the hiring manager and the recruiters, they are the ones that have the pressure to hire someone. They are the ones to which the management comes and says, why do we still have five openings and we are slowing engineering? So they have the pressure to hire. And if they see that they do a good job, they're more likely to be on your side.
