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Code review exercise (2019)

Take-home work

“In the end, we chose to move entirely to the code review exercise as it better fulfilled both of these goals.”

Chase Rutherford-Jenkins, Duretti Hirpa and William KimeriaSlack backend engineers (Engineering at Slack blog)

Slack · 2019-04-03

A code review instead of a project

Practise pinning down an ambiguous requirement before you build, as a take-home asks.

Example

“We wanted something that would give us good signal on the attributes we cared about while taking at most two hours to complete.”

Chase Rutherford-Jenkins, Duretti Hirpa and William KimeriaSlack backend engineers (Engineering at Slack blog)

Slack · 2019-04-03

At most two hours

Practise pinning down an ambiguous requirement before you build, as a take-home asks.

Example

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