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by luisgvv 1086 days ago
Only once I did a take home and I passed & got an offer. Even though it was a mildy challenging I hated it.

Tbh if I didn't have knowledge on the framework I know I wouldn't have been able to complete it. However I found it disheartening the fact that they just checked that the app worked, didn't have any bugs but didn't even cared to ask around if I actually did it.

These days I can't even imagine how easy it is to cheat with ChatGPT. Last guys I have interviewed I tell them to download a repo with a sample app and poke around with questions. I can quickly tell if someone is BSing and how deep they actually know about the language/framework. I've found this to be better than live coding or take home.

On the other topic, remember that the hiring side doesn't have an incentive to tell you how well or how much you suck at coding, interviewing etc.