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I'll respond in good faith, even though I'm not sure the critiques are. The amount that you can figure out from a small code snippet someone sends you is not very much IMHO.

I'm happy to talk about code I've written, or pair or walk through complex code in an interview, or refer you to my github, but if you ask for a link to a small amount of code in your application that "makes you proud", I'll send over code that made me proud for some reason whether or not it was technically 'good code'. I explained my reasons in the application. I stand by it as code that would have been a good indicator to me of someone's ability to problem-solve if I was on the hiring end.

The second one was basically a "not interested" note, yes. I'm not going to just accept a power dynamic where someone tells me that they already have significant reservations about me, but they are going to 'give me a chance to impress them' - if other people don't mind wooing hiring managers that openly flaunt power dynamics like those, more power to them.