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Discussion on: A list of assignments I was given when interviewing for companies.

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Keshav Chakravarthy

I guess most of these companies are startup’s in “growth phase” and they care lot more about shipping out code fast, rather than making it good. They probably don’t see any value in an Engineer thinking deeply about code structure and shipping something out over 2 days, compared to someone who gets the job done in 2 hours.

I recently saw a series of videos by DHH on how he thinks about his OO code. He goes into a detailed analysis about how a variable should be named, where it should be placed, should he use a constant, should he make it private, where should the constant be in relation to the method that uses it etc... I guess DHH would find it pretty hard to get a job in Bangalore.

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Fayaz Ahmed

Yes, I believe you are right, most of these companies are in their "growth phase" & I am sure DHH will bash the companies for having this kind of interview process but I guess it is up to these companies on how they want to hire their employees.

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Keshav Chakravarthy

Well obviously. It's a free country. So of course they have a right to hire the way they want to.

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Fayaz Ahmed

People getting furious for some reason that "I" jad to write these assignments 😂.

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