[hmillison]

Having just been through the interview process, i ended up having to go through a few coding challenges. Luckily for me, i never got “ghosted” after sending one back.

The important thing to me is that the coding challenges have a reasonable scope. I really appreciated two of the companies that gave me an already set up project (it was not their actual codebase) and then required me to build an addition to it. That feels like an accurate way to test someone’s skills.

As someone who doesnt excel at some of the “leetcode” interview questions as much. I have found challenges to be a welcome alternative when done right.

I did experience some companies who would give a project that was wayyy too complex and they estimated it would only take one hour. Those are the places i would reject without doing it. With the market as competitive as it is, you need to have some limits with these things.