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Exactly. The candidate doesn't even need to obviously succeed at the test, if they can explain how they're thinking about it as they go along. I don't think those "you've got 48 hours to write us an app to do X" projects or the multiple-choice tests some companies let you do remotely are much cop.
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Exactly. The candidate doesn't even need to obviously succeed at the test, if they can explain how they're thinking about it as they go along. I don't think those "you've got 48 hours to write us an app to do X" projects or the multiple-choice tests some companies let you do remotely are much cop.