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@hjk101 I wouldn’t go that far but they are deffinitely cheapening out by trying to hire a dev who will design too instead of hiring a dev and a designer. They say they are paying more than the average salary but they are only paying a low tech lead salary, still cheaper than hiring two people.
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@hjk101 Doubt it. Imagine how other devs would react if the manager goes "We will be merging this new design written in 2 hours by a candidate as an interview assignment"
I wouldn't suspect anyone is actually putting any value on code written for interviews unless it was a tiny one man company. -
@RinseRepeat Good choice to refuse. If the direction is just "do it again but more and better" I feel that's way out of scope for an interview assignment.
That kind of task is not something I'd ever do as a home assignment. It would be a waste of time if you begin designing something that doesn't match their taste. That kind of assignment seems more suitable for a live coding session where you can continuously ask for feedback. Ridiculous as a home assignment. -
@jiraTicket I know that recruitment assignments are used to let Devs do work for free (mostly heard about Indian companies). As you can see the assignment is not doable in 2 hours and they request changes afterwards. So it's more likely half a week worth of design. For a lot of sites that is quite a lot of legwork done. Other recruits can take it from there or it's already enough to scam a client.
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