I just can't understand this mentality. You are the one who wants the job, doing the bare minimum of effort to prove that you can perform the job is too much? W

I just can't understand this mentality. You are the one who wants the job, doing the bare minimum of effort to prove that you can perform the job is too much? Why should they review your code before they know if you're someone they'd want to work with? It's part of the mating dance, and it goes both ways. Presumably you would have read up on the company or spoken to people in the industry? Unless you have some other way of proving your ability (Github projects, Kaggle, research) don't expect a job to just land in your lap.