[john-tells-all]

As a counterpoint, I find coding assignments refreshing:

- I always learn new things

- learn and experiment new ways of doing a task

- get to see how a different team thinks about projects

During the walk through, I can demonstrate my organization and documentation skills, in addition to having an interesting back-and-forth about different tradeoffs.

If an assignment takes too long, then I make sure a subset is implemented. Then the rest is stubbed out, to be handwaved on the walk-through. In theory. Sometimes I get carried away and work too long on an assignment.

I'm mostly a Backend Dev / DevOps kind of person.