Free labor for them? If interview test code is in anyway a part of their codebase, you should be running the other way. Programming tests are simply to make s

Free labor for them? If interview test code is in anyway a part of their codebase, you should be running the other way. Programming tests are simply to make sure you can actually code. You'd be surprised how many people interviewing for engineering positions can't. Startups are generally very small, and can only afford to hire engineers who are going to get a tremendous amount of work done.