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LeMeow
3y

I was given a take-home assignment during the interview process of a startup.
They gave me a vague 24 hours to complete it and submit it the day after.
The instructions read like - most candidates don't complete the assignment, so if you finish 70%-80%, that's good enough.
I read the instructions; I was supposed to follow the "mock design" they sent me. It looked a tad bit ridiculous. But still, I thought I'd be able to finish most of it.

I worked on it for around 10-12hrs total (including procrastination because it was such a slog). I finished most of the "features" they mentioned, so about 70%-80% done.
I submitted it the next day. They got back to me saying they're not moving forward because they expected more features considering 24 hours.
🤨
They didn't expect me to spend 24hrs on it, did they?
I learned a few things, so I guess it wasn't a complete waste of time.

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  • 7
    I hate those kinds of assignments. I had one that was 12 hours too.
    It involved some tasks to implement a number of different end to end features with some rules about how to do them. Estimate them before hand and keep a log of what issued I had found and updating the remaining work on each task as I committed.
    It was basically impossible, and to top it all my keyboard packed in half way through.

    The exercises are supposed to show them how you work.
    But if they are a two way thing and that is an indication of how they work then they must be working under a load of pressure.
  • 1
    Lol so 70-80 percent wasn’t good enough...fucking liars
  • 3
    Hey dude we can’t progress with your assignment. It requires us to put to much effort to put it into production. Please write more production ready code later so we can expand out products.
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