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Re:Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current posi... by tempest_ on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:39AM (#29825809)
It really depends on what you are given.

A take home that is 1-2 hours (what might be the length of an in person) is fine.

A take home that is 10 hours of work on the other hand

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Re:Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current posi... by geekbird on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:14PM (#29831118)
Yeah, even when you are unemployed a 10 hour take-home is a bit abusive. I had to bow out on one take home that would have cost me actual money to set up a development environment with all the ancillary software, plus the three separate programs in three different languages. LOL, no, I'm not going to spend cash on AWS to set up a dev cluster with paid software.
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