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Written by April King on 2025-01-11 at 15:50

me: i’ve single-handedly written software used by tens of millions of people, you can see it right over at github.com/april

prospective employers: sorry, but unfortunately you did poorly in a high-stress 40-minute coding exercise, writing code with no time to think about how to solve a problem you’ve never seen before, in a terrible dev environment, while someone stares at you the whole time

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Written by Licho on 2025-01-11 at 16:09

@april they want people they can put in a crunch

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Written by Torsten Curdt on 2025-01-12 at 14:32

@licho @april

Speaking, demoing, and applying for a job create a type of high stress that's very different from the stress of, say, fixing critical production issues or working under a tight deadline.

I would argue that there are very few conclusions to draw from that kind of crunch.

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Written by April King on 2025-01-13 at 04:51

@tcurdt @licho I could see an exercise like this for a sysadmin, asking them to figure out why something is broken. That is frequently their job. Code developed this way, however, is almost universally garbage.

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