The Take-Home Test We Replaced With a Debugging Session
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We stopped sending take-home coding tests. Coding tools turned them into a measure of who has the better subscription. In their place we run a sixty-minute live debugging session in a small, realistic codebase, with any AI tool the candidate wants, and we watch how they read errors and how they dec…
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- 2026-09-01 08:01 · DEV Community — AI
The Take-Home Test We Replaced With a Debugging Session