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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by pdonis on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:13AM (#16884909)
> Being asked to reverse a list in 15 minutes isn't even close to "writing an app from scratch".

It also isn't even close to "solving a real-world problem". Wow, look, I reversed this list and the conversion rate on our sign-up page went up 200%!

> Could you try any harder to misrepresent things here?

It looks to me like you are the one misrepresenting things.

Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by tytytytytytytyt on Friday April 20, 2018 @04:00PM (#16888048)
> It also isn't even close to "solving a real-world problem".

It's not supposed to be the same thing. It's supposed to test your coding and problem solving abilities, in the limited time you have. What better alternative can you come up with? It's easy to just complain...

> It looks to me like you are the one misrepresenting things.

Hah, yeah right. If it makes you feel better, sure.