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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by NeverFade on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:32PM (#20711656)
You can cheat by paying someone for the solution, and it also comes with a clear verbal explanation that you can read.

What GP describes is more common than you'd think. Not surprising when the prize for cheating is a 6 figure job, and there's no penalty at all for getting caught.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by grogenaut on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:05PM (#20711812)
I've seen cases where people had a friend, someone they were dating or a cs major roommate who it was very likely did the code for them (they mentioned these people encouraging them in interviews)

In the gp scenarios they said they were able to Google almost all of the take home and stich the parts together. The overall solution/problem isn't Googleable, we checked.

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Re:Hiring Is Broken: What Do Developers Say About Technical ... by NeverFade on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:08PM (#20711829)
It doesn't have to be Googleable. There are many people offering to provide solutions for take-home assignments for pay.
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