[macintux]

On the other hand, I’ll spend 4-8 hours on a coding challenge for free. Give me an interesting problem and why not?

I was asked to write an AWS integration tool once, and I declined to proceed with the interview process, because I didn’t feel like spending hours learning the Amazon API and re-learning a language with a useful library (I’ve since come to appreciate Python and Boto3, even if I’d rather be Erlanging).

It also wasn’t a sufficiently interesting problem to make the time worthwhile.

[tptacek]

Which, for the right job, can be a perfect example of the system working: the firm wants to hire someone super comfortable with AWS, for that person, the tool might just take 30 minutes to bang out, and so it works as a filter.

[shantly]

I think I'd only be willing to do that if I were unemployed. Otherwise I'm already collecting a paycheck for doing tens of hours of software development a week—the last thing I'm interested in doing is more of that, for free, on a project not of my choosing, so someone else will maybe start giving me a paycheck instead of whoever is now.