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0 pointsdpark9y ago0 comments

I fully agree with you on this. If you ask someone to build a trivial CRUD app as part of their interview process, you should probably expect them to hack something together to get the job done. In fact, you should expect that on the job. If you don't have complex needs or high scalability requirements, gluing a bunch of plugins together seems like the appropriate approach.

Who wants to hire an architecture astronaut who hears "design a new ORM system" when someone says "build an app to update customer addresses"?

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ep1039y ago· 1 in thread

Perhaps its personal bias showing. When I've done assessments in the past, I've written more than the project required, then left notes in the code saying: "This likely isn't necessary, but this is a chance for me to show you my ability to code", or oppositely: "This would be a good spot for X, but that seems outside the scope of this exam"

dparkOP9y ago

My personal bias is against take-home exams because my experience is that they claim they take "an hour or two" but they're actually looking for a day and a half of solid work to build a system from scratch, test, and document it.

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