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Re:How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers by jacobobryant on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:18PM (#21084454)
From the article: "In retrospect, I think our test was a bit longer and more difficult than ideal. If I were to do this over again, I would design the test to take about 4 hours."

Seems reasonable to me.

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Re:How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers by jakebasile on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:51PM (#21084797)
But the test time is actually unbounded, although of course they're hovering over you with a stopwatch.

Which means the candidate will be under incredible stress still, no matter what the supposed target time is.

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