9 points n2d4 | 2 comments | 19 Nov 24 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source

As an applicant, I've personally had a mixed experience with take-homes. We're designing the technical interviews right now, and I thought I'd ask for some stories on exciting take-home tasks. We're looking for something that resembles the actual job, so we'll allow any tool (including AI and debuggers).

Also curious to hear about any bad ones you've done.

1. aprdm ◴[19 Nov 24 16:02 UTC] No.42184943[source]▶

>>42182365 (OP) #

I had one that I enjoyed many years ago, to write a service that calculated the Nth digit of Pi.

It was up to you what you wanted to do / how / if you wanted to deploy. They only asked that you write how you would've liked to receive such service from another org.

Then in the day of the in person interview we reviewed my code / README / tests ; was very nice.

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2. defrost ◴[20 Nov 24 03:12 UTC] No.42190524[source]▶

>>42184943 (TP) #

Did you have the option to represent Pi in a hexidecimal base?

That speeds things up no end.

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