> Asking people to use TDD for a coding test is probably a bit much since it takes a long time to learn the ins and outs, This hits close to home for me, I was

> Asking people to use TDD for a coding test is probably a bit much since it takes a long time to learn the ins and outs, This hits close to home for me, I was very recently rejected at an interview (a 1 hour pair programming session), because my approach to fixing the algorithm was 'not TDD enough'. I think that it's really dumb to expect people to go full on TDD in an interview session, where the purpose would ostensibly be too demonstrate analytical and programming ability. Couple that with the fact that they didn't even tell me that there was going to be an emphasis on TDD, it basically amounted to wasting about 3 days of my time for the entire interview process. It is unfair that companies can unilaterally make such demands on your time, while themselves not spending more than a few hours.