> [1] https://www.otherbranch.com/shared/practice-coding-problem https://www.otherbranch.com/shared/practice-coding-problem Minesweeper? Huh. No wonder the P

> [1] https://www.otherbranch.com/shared/practice-coding-problem https://www.otherbranch.com/shared/practice-coding-problem Minesweeper? Huh. No wonder the PhD candidate who was supervising us was surprised I did that as a fun little side project in my first or second year at university. Still, I'm not absolutely sure I'd have gotten to the end of step 5 (correctly working flood-fill) within 25 minutes despite having implemented the whole game in Java, REALBasic, and JavaScript over the years. On the other hand, that's probably good. 25 minute coding challenge where you're not even expected to get to the end as per the instructions* is much better than "take this, do it over the next week, might take you 8 hours, we'll spend an hour talking about it" as I've been seeing. * "Very few people will finish the full problem. You do not need to complete every step to pass our interview."