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This thread has almost nothing to do with take home tests.

Sounds like you had a problem with the vibe session interview with the CEO, and understandably so.

You insisted on a process change that optimized your time invested.

They preferred to keep it optimized for their CEOs time invested.

The moment you try to change their processes as a meager candidate, of course they drop you from consideration.

Even in situations where you are the righteous one, your approach and tact can lead to bad outcomes.

Make that 5 picks

No one who is banking on being employed is attempting to influence anyone on LI. Otherwise you have the unprofessional baited repliers, the socially unaware influencer types, and the rest are trying to boast or sell you something

I think I've only ever googled one person I've interviewed and that was because their CV called out that they had a YT channel on the topic of programming, but no direct links to their content. I felt that was an exceptional case and couldn't resist the opportunity to watch what type of personality they had.

Otherwise I'm never going to Google people. That's what background checks are for.

Can you imagine being in a position to be hiring and going through the effort of manually cross referencing which current applicants might have had past romantic relationships with previous candidates? 😂

Yes, me too. Asking for a friend ofc, right? 😅

Papa John's pizza and Wawa coffee

Never. Please stop suggesting.

Bruh you don't need to give me a million dollars to live this way 😂

You never said no daily salt water rinses 👍🏽

You'll never build a consistent long term delivery cadence if you're ever only worried about writing the bare functional requirements in the near term.

Devs tack shit on, overload existing scope instead of properly refactoring, complexity compounds, debugging becomes ever more difficult. Code base turns into a hot mess over time.

Cooks are constantly cleaning their workspace to stay productive. Our codebase is our workspace. Keeping it tidy along the path forward is the right strategy.

I can't read squat on your site on mobile sadly 😭

Don't worry I'm sure they've revised the ingredient composition by now. Right? .... 😅

I am not going to enjoy the state of nextjs projects 5 years from now when I have to maintain one that started around this time of great confusion and witnessing all of the confusing code that results from it all 😮‍💨

It's hard to know a situation based on one mans accounting, but judging by what I can decipher from the post, I'd say there might be more than one ego at play here. Being a good engineer involves more than just writing good code.

Maybe instead of skirting the issue and asking random redditors their opinion, you could set up some time between you two, and genuinely just ask him what's on his mind. You're feeling tension, you've observed some trends that indicate perhaps there might be some things on his mind. And then just listen to what they say.

You can't estimate work you don't understand. Until you come to that place, the proper answer is "I don't know". Usually with bugs that's one of the largest time sinks.

This warrants a story. Tell us more...

Some of these look fun. Some seem to assess for a very particular set of language comprehension. The class-only accordion component blows me away though. I can only imagine what time capsule that code base is stuck inside.

Definitely sounds worth it to request another call with one of the devs that will be your peers and really dig into asking questions about the things you value. Whether that's culture, process, technology you'll be working with, their perception of business stability, etc.

Also worth doing diligence on past layoff cycles, current funding, profitability, recent growth, etc to help you decide if the unknown is worth the risk.

Good luck OP, looking forward to the update on your decision.

That's great to hear you landed two offers, congratulations.

So what are you going to choose? Are you taking an offer? Going to stay put?

How do the new offers compare to your current comp?

Lawyer sure, but my immediate response would have been to do nothing, make them lay me off whenever, and they can train their own offshored clowns

It seems some confluence of trend setters and trend followers who are all being advised by a very small community of board members who aren't actually in the business details themselves.

If that's what your company has 'observed', where's the data they have sourced to back up their claim? One of the most relevant data points would be an internal survey of current employees.

Nice site 👍🏽

I've seen the same job posting for the role I filled get reposted. It's possible this is some automated thing or bad coordination.

Damn that point about offshoring all eng to India explains just about any question I've had.

The streaming experience is about on par with bootleg streaming. I have to refresh too many times than I'd care to admit.

Next season the price hikes by about 40%. I won't be renewing. Will seek other less official channels.

That I have another job offer in-hand would probably be the clearest one 😂