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Please stop the coding challenges

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261 points CrazyEmi | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 15:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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simonw ◴[15 Nov 24 16:00 UTC] No.42148072[source]▶
> This is like asking a Ruby developer to debug PHP as a test of flexibility.

Sounds like an OK test to me. Great (senior) developers should be able to do that kind of thing. Categorizing yourself exclusively as "a Ruby developer" is a career trap.

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1. toolz ◴[15 Nov 24 16:06 UTC] No.42148129[source]▶
being able to do that without significant time constraints isn't that bad imho, but inside of an interview?! That's borderline laughable, for me, as you're only going to be filtering out people based on whether they have any previous PHP exposure or not.