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Re:We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home ... by sgarland on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:11PM (#32598534)
The two things I like about them from a candidate perspective are that they're async, and that they generally have an actual problem to solve, rather than "solve N-Queens." Some companies (Dropbox comes to mind) have coding tests, but they're async, and they also aren't convoluted Leetcode problems.

I've also interviewed people using both live and a take-home review, and don't have much of a preference there. If the former, I can poke your thoughts in realtime, give hints, etc. If the latter, I get to deep-dive into some of your design decisions.

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Re:We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home ... by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:32PM (#32598827)
> they generally have an actual problem to solve, rather than "solve N-Queens." Some companies (Dropbox comes to mind) have coding tests, but they're async, and they also aren't convoluted Leetcode problems.

I applied to Dropbox some years ago, and the coding test was an NP-hard problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle_packing

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Re:We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home ... by sgarland on Thursday August 25, 2022 @03:40PM (#32598941)
Oh my. Mine was SRE-specific to be fair, and was the kind of thing I'd do for fun to answer "what if..." It was timeboxed to two hours, and IIRC I had a working solution in about half that, then spent the rest iterating and improving.
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