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by vosper 4311 days ago
Thanks for posting this - some real food for thought here. Can you explain exactly what you mean by a "work-sample test", in particular how that might differ from a pair programming or take-home coding exercise?
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Can you explain exactly what you mean by a "work-sample test", in particular how that might differ from a pair programming or take-home coding exercise?

This HN search for comments by Thomas Ptacek on the topic of work-sample tests

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=by%3Atptacek+work-sample#!/comment...

will lead to better descriptions of work-sample tests useful in a Hacker News context than anything I have yet written on the topic. I'm grateful to him for contextualizing that issue for this community.