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"Work Sample Test"

Our best received interview question was in this style. Pick something your team fixed or did, distilled down do a 15min thing a teammate could do. Give the candidate 3x the time.

For us, it was a db value not being set as expected during a cron. The candidate got our forged bug reports, cloned a repo, ran the script, verified the unexpected db state, and off to the races




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