I think there can be just as many issues with that style too. There are so many critiques possible, it's difficult to know what to focus on. Some people care a

I think there can be just as many issues with that style too. There are so many critiques possible, it's difficult to know what to focus on. Some people care about algorithm efficiency, and others don't. Some interviewers require test coverage and expect you to work under tdd. Or maybe you arrive and some guy frowns when you reveal you didn't prepare DB query plans for your 3 hour assignment. I suppose what I mean is: it feels to me like just trading one kind of arbitrariness for another. Coding in general is highly opinionated (who hasn't had a disagreement during code review). I have had a particularly bad take-away experience and so I am shy of them now.