This sounds like pure laziness on their part. If they want to see a small chunk of code you are proud of to evaluate competence and style they should be asking

This sounds like pure laziness on their part. If they want to see a small chunk of code you are proud of to evaluate competence and style they should be asking you to solve some puzzle or problem with code. Etsy does this, so does Dropbox. http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges http://www.dropbox.com/jobs/challenges