I've seen a YC company give a challenge that took a weekend to complete. (Relatively late in the hiring process.) It was interesting and relevant to career goal

I've seen a YC company give a challenge that took a weekend to complete. (Relatively late in the hiring process.) It was interesting and relevant to career goals. I understand the rejection and the lack of feedback, but the do-not-publish request is infuriating. Supposedly the reason is to not give code to other candidates but the companies should be able to detect that trivially by diffing or talking about the code with the candidate. I've routinely seen coding tasks designed to take a Saturday. edit: sorry to see your post downvoted, I upvoted it