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I would not waste effort with these test if it is not a language or system you are familiar with (unless you want to for fun). The companies that do this are l

I would not waste effort with these test if it is not a language or system you are familiar with (unless you want to for fun). The companies that do this are looking for code monkeys. They want to feed you tickets and get code in return. Many of the people critiquing the submitted code are often not qualified to do so.

t0astbread 4y ago
In general I'm also not a big fan of these interview assignments but I gotta say it probably heavily depends on how they're used. About a year ago I got my first Go job that way with little prior experience and it ended up being great. Granted, my assignment was smaller and I knew they would get back to me. If I had been asked to develop a spreadsheet editor from first principles that would have been a major red flag.