Over a weekend? Most code samples I've done have been less than an hour, maybe a few hours max. I'm not dedicating my weekend on a code sample for a position I

Over a weekend? Most code samples I've done have been less than an hour, maybe a few hours max. I'm not dedicating my weekend on a code sample for a position I know next to nothing about. Code written in an hour 'could' be contributed to a serious project. I wrote a language identifier as a code sample in under an hour, test code and all. Add a few more languages to it (don't need to change the code as the app goes looking for samples in the language directory) and it's damn near production ready. The company I did the code sample for had nothing to do with identifying languages, but they thought it was a good way to test the thought process. I agree, I thought it was a great code-sample, and my favorite thing about it was that I got to challenge myself and learn a bit too. I have no problem with code samples in general, that's why I'm so curious about other peoples feelings regarding this one.