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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 jomo on 2025-01-11 at 15:54

@april that doesn't sound like an environment one would want to work in

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Written by April King on 2025-01-11 at 15:56

@jomo nope it’s entirely unnatural and uncomfortable and doesn’t reflect real development at all and yet it’s a fundamental part of almost every single hiring loop because ???

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Written by PlasmaGryphon on 2025-01-12 at 16:49

@april @jomo I usually associate it with a trust issue, or at least starting with that. Someone is concerned you didn't actually write what's in your portfolio or that you would cheat on a take home exercise.

I feel like you can be reasonably sure a candidate wrote some existing code by talking to them about it in enough detail. Anyone who can fake that can also fake skills that a 30min coding test wouldn't test.

It's the same kind of mindset that wants doctor's note for every sick day or wants to install a bunch of monitoring tools when people work remotely.

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Written by April King on 2025-01-13 at 05:04

@PlasmaGryphon @jomo if someone can fake 15 years of code, pull requests, issue comments, gists, and what not then i’d be pretty danged impressed. especially if they all that while their github username was literally their first name.

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Written by Anatol on 2025-01-15 at 23:49

@april @PlasmaGryphon @jomo

"we're not going to hire you as a programmer because we're certain you fabricated your entire professional history; on the other hand: wanna join our red team?"

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