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Of course, but this is take home with a completely unenforceable time limit. Well, you can enforce it to some extent as someone mentioned. If you give the test

Of course, but this is take home with a completely unenforceable time limit. Well, you can enforce it to some extent as someone mentioned. If you give the test friday and say two days, and they turn it in a week later, they've obviously blown the limit.

Manuel_D 3y ago
No, the time limit is enforced. The way it worked when I took this kind of problem is that the company sent me a link to a web page that explained how the 3 hour timer would start when I viewed the prompt. I could choose to view the prompt whenever I wanted, within the next two weeks. I entered my solution in a leet code sort of editor. Presumably it would lock me out if I didn't submit within 3 hours of viewing the prompt.
- EchoChamberMan 3y ago
  We're starting to go in circles, but here's your quote with the preceding sentence, emphasis mine. You're discussing an online test, not really a take home as described in the article. > Take-home coding tests used to be rare, deployed only if an employer needed to be further convinced. Now interviewees are regularly given projects described as requiring just two to three hours that instead take days of work. [Edit] They should probably call it a "take home project" to be more accurate. It can include front and back end code, tests, documentation, design, styling, etc. etc. "2-3 hours," yea right.
  - Manuel_D 3y ago
    What's the difference between a "take home coding test" and an "online test"? As far as I can tell, these are functionally identical perhaps save for the submission mechanism. Explain to the candidate that there will be a 3 hour time limit enforced once the prompt is revealed. Close submission 3 hours after the candidate chooses to reveal the prompt. This could easily be done in GitHub, if the submission mechanism is pushing updates to the company's repo. Voila, you have enforced a 3 hour time limit on your "take home coding test".
    - EchoChamberMan 3y ago
      Have a good day

Manuel_D 3y ago

No, the time limit is enforced. The way it worked when I took this kind of problem is that the company sent me a link to a web page that explained how the 3 hour timer would start when I viewed the prompt. I could choose to view the prompt whenever I wanted, within the next two weeks. I entered my solution in a leet code sort of editor. Presumably it would lock me out if I didn't submit within 3 hours of viewing the prompt.

EchoChamberMan 3y ago
We're starting to go in circles, but here's your quote with the preceding sentence, emphasis mine. You're discussing an online test, not really a take home as described in the article. > Take-home coding tests used to be rare, deployed only if an employer needed to be further convinced. Now interviewees are regularly given projects described as requiring just two to three hours that instead take days of work. [Edit] They should probably call it a "take home project" to be more accurate. It can include front and back end code, tests, documentation, design, styling, etc. etc. "2-3 hours," yea right.
- Manuel_D 3y ago
  What's the difference between a "take home coding test" and an "online test"? As far as I can tell, these are functionally identical perhaps save for the submission mechanism. Explain to the candidate that there will be a 3 hour time limit enforced once the prompt is revealed. Close submission 3 hours after the candidate chooses to reveal the prompt. This could easily be done in GitHub, if the submission mechanism is pushing updates to the company's repo. Voila, you have enforced a 3 hour time limit on your "take home coding test".
  - EchoChamberMan 3y ago
    Have a good day