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Re:They don't even know the fundamentals by LamboJ on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:22PM (#29069843)
I'm not OP, but I imagine the concern is doing work for the company (i.e. fixing a bug in their codebase) without getting paid at least minimum wage for it.
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Re:They don't even know the fundamentals by goto11 on Monday November 01, 2021 @03:11PM (#29071492)
Ah, I assumed it was just a realistic looking exercise. If they actually used code written by the applicant, I can definitely see all kinds of problems!
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Re:They don't even know the fundamentals by lolinder on Monday November 01, 2021 @08:25PM (#29075267)
If I were designing this question I would probably use a real bug that we recently fixed. We'd already have a sense for how hard of a problem it was, and there's no worry about unpaid work.
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