[tetraodonpuffer]

thanks for chiming in and clarifying, best of luck with your hiring! as I was saying I definitely think it's a net positive for everybody to harness your interviewees' effort to improve open source packages that you care about as opposed to just wasting it on contrived exercises not benefiting anybody.

[timgdelisle]

There's also the fact that if more companies adopt this approach candidates could technically do a single open source challenge to apply to multiple companies :)