[byoung2]

My latest job search (Oct-Nov 2018) involved 6 different companies all requiring quizzes or live coding (I only applied to 100% remote jobs). I got "code an elevator controller", "code a number guessing game", "architect a analytics system to handle 1M data points for under $2k per month on AWS", "build a react app to let users pick a timezone and display the current time in it", "code a tic tac toe game", and "build a reusable dialog box component". With each exercise taking about 2 hours, it was a significant chunk of what could have been billable time. One company made an offer (the number guessing game one), which I accepted. In the end it was my open source project on github that won them over.