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

10 points n2d4 | 1 comments | 19 Nov 24 11:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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. austin-cheney ◴[21 Nov 24 11:04 UTC] No.42203074[source]▶
While I know there are some exceptionally few objective ethical companies out there I have completely lost faith in take home assignments. It’s one of those: that’s why we can’t have nice things.

If a potential employer wants to evaluate my ability and style for writing code I have a GitHub profile with numerous projects populated over numerous years. If that is too much trouble then why the fuck would I do a take home assignment for them?