One thing to bear in mind is that people reviewing applicants are looking for a reason to reject applicants. It used to be different when it was hard to find p

One thing to bear in mind is that people reviewing applicants are looking for a reason to reject applicants. It used to be different when it was hard to find people. We would be looking for excuses to accept people - e.g. the code is a bit rough, but maybe they didn’t put too much effort into the take home - let’s get them in for an interview just in case… Now with so many applicants it will be much more a case of who can we reject so we don’t spend all our time interviewing… Also, don’t forget, the people reviewing your code may not be the senior engineers, bend with the wind, run your code through a standard formatted so that it will match expectations. Do the unit tests even if you think it’s pointless. Play the game.