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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Interview: “reverse this binary tree with an algorithmic efficiency of O(1)”

Job: “The marketing team would like you to indent this button by 10 pixels”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

production code: "hehe this is running at polynomial scaling"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

All of this. When I tell people I meet that we don't do coding tests, we instead do tiny assignments, they often get quite excited. It also seems to be way, way more effective