[andrewingram]

I did a "trial week" at Linear a few years ago, essentially the same thing but for an entire week.

Nice to get paid, but even getting paid is stressful if you're used to working PAYE and not having to think about how to do taxes on foreign income. The process works out very well for Linear, but as a candidate... not so much. It was probably the most stressful week of my professional career. You can't really simulate a typical work day or week with the stress of a sword of damocles over your head.

The thing I was tasked to do was pretty simple on the surface, but had some unexpected dead-end avenues that ate up quite a bit of time. So ended the week with "you're not fast enough". If I'd hit on the correct approach from the start i'd have probably easily finished early, so it really felt like a coin toss to me.