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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by Legogris on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:04PM (#20711251)
> So you hard-scramble 4-5 hours to finish a take home assignment to apply to just one place (!), and then you send it in and get a meaningless rejection note. Sometimes you don't get anything at all.

Do you mean you've gotten rejection letters straight after submission? In anything but exceptional cases I thought it was standard practice to always have an interview after the submission and talk about the solution - how you talk at the code, design choices, possible optimizations and issues should weigh heavier than the quality of the submission itself.

So I don't think anyone using services doing it for them has any success with it. And if they do, you may have dodged a bullet.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by NeverFade on Thursday August 15, 2019 @09:11PM (#20711286)
> Do you mean you've gotten rejection letters straight after submission?

Yes, that definitely happens. In fact, from what I've seen, it's the norm: companies who give out homework projects only bother spending any time with you if you completed them to their satisfaction.

Otherwise you just get a meaningless auto-generated that they're rejecting you.

> So I don't think anyone using services doing it for them has any success with it.

Why not?

If I'm a mediocre programmer in the US, I can go online and buy a solution with a full, detailed verbal explanation attached. Then I'll take maybe 40 minutes to read through the solution and explanation, and voila, I'm ready for any followup session you may have.

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