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Please stop the coding challenges

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261 points CrazyEmi | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.453s | source
1. pavel_lishin ◴[] No.42148316[source]
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

Literally every day this week.

Documentation? The code was last updated in June, the documentation was last updated in January - of 2022.

The team? The half that didn't get laid off two years ago all quit for greener pastures. Sure, there's a team that owns this project - along with three others, all of which they've contributed maybe a dozen lines to over the past year, and 11 of those were dependency updates.

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2. John_Cena ◴[] No.42149703[source]
I have no issue with doing this on a job, but i have issue with it in interviews. Not everyone is able to be comfortable in a strange environment with strange people. Give me a damn take-home test and stop talking amongst yourselves while i'm at the whiteboard.