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I would advise people to avoid HomeVision. I did a pre interview take home assignment for them that took up a weekend, after which they didn't respond. I guess
by queSide 1y ago
I would advise people to avoid HomeVision. I did a pre interview take home assignment for them that took up a weekend, after which they didn't respond. I guess my code was sloppy or something came up. Just ghosting after the time commitment is disrespectful.
- dang 1y agoI agree with you that companies should respond to applicants, but posts like this are against the rules in Who Is Hiring threads, as the top text makes clear. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44764800 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44764800.
- queSide 1y agoThis seemed directly relevant to the job posting and not a compliant about HomeVision's service though. My bad. >Please only post [...] are committed to responding to applicants. seems they also violate the top text edit: formating
- dang 1y agoThat could certainly be. The trouble is that we have no way of sorting out which companies are doing what. Btw I went back and found a bunch of past explanations about this in case anyone finds it helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770591 (Aug 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161363 (June 2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239393 (May 2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759361 (Oct 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759152 (Oct 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37741801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37741801 (Oct 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37397355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37397355 (Sept 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354391 (Sept 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158274 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36158274 (June 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35818403 (May 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32335600 (Aug 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408468 (Dec 2021)
- queSide 1y agoI could show you emails and then you would know what this specific company is doing, but I get your busy moderating the rest of HN, which is a monumental task. So that is unlikely to happen. But as it stands the situation is "rules for job seekers, Carte blanche for companies"
- dang 1y agoI believe you, but the trouble is we'd have to solve the problem in the general case, and we don't have the resources to do that. Also, I imagine it would take over the Who Is Hiring threads, since lots of people would want to comment for and against the different sides in different cases. Also, it's just not the kind of thing that HN is supposed to be for. This is not to deny that the problem is a real one. > "rules for job seekers, Carte blanche for companies" I don't think that's quite fair. Rules apply to both. We just (try to) keep the rules scoped to what we can actually determine from what gets posted here.
- queSide 1y agoI do get that solving the general case would cost a huge amount of resources, especially policing people with an axe to grind against a particular company. Is saying Carte blanche too far? perhaps. Maybe better phrasing would be "Rules are written with good intentions and enforced when the general case is solved". Regardless, I think this discussion has run it's course, I got to warn others. Thanks for your time
- yahmna 1y ago[dead]