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Ask HN: What are some of the best take-home coding tasks you've gotten?

9 points n2d4 | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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.

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bravetraveler ◴[20 Nov 24 08:24 UTC] No.42191806[source]▶
The ones that happened in the interview. I'm not working for free, I expect a modicum of investment from the hiring business - we're doing it live or not at all.
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n2d4 ◴[20 Nov 24 12:05 UTC] No.42193131[source]▶
For context, the take home we're looking to do would happen after we've already interviewed them. We're not thinking of anything huge — something like an hour of work.

We're also doing a paid trial period, though that would be after the interview + take home.

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1. bravetraveler ◴[20 Nov 24 12:37 UTC] No.42193393[source]▶
Apologies if I came in too hot - none of this is a judgement against anything. I just see trends in the industry at large and expect a lot of newbies to be lurking. For every however many honest businesses, I get the sense more are unscrupulous

If nothing else, take this as a scar some of those who are interested may be carrying