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Discussion on: Unpopular opinion? I don't do puzzle coding tests.

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Rogier Nitschelm

Agreed. It is kind of silly that companies struggle to find personnel, and at the same time still expect developers to do these kinds of tests. It is an employees market, the employee/developer has more leverage these days. So either offer to pay them an hourly rate for making a test, or don't ask them to make one.

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Gil Aires da Silva

Best answer ever!! Not to comment on the topic itself (that would be a big post), but I really hate programming for free (unless when I am in the mood for it, which is not often). So I get really anoyed when they ask me to code something for an interview. And when they ask for software you wrote, its like "I cant send you software I wrote in another company, major breach of contract!" Plus, almost all the software I developed professionaly was in a team, so the code isnt really mine, but also from others and its not nice to take credit for others work, nor it really shows that you did a good job, only your team did a good job.