Acing the Code Assignment Interview - Tips for Interviewers and Candidates
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Claims concrete hiring fixes: a hiring lead who reads a few thousand take‑home assignments outlines actionable rules used while scaling a medical data scientist platform (worlds number one medical data scientist platform). Recommendations include using a private git repo, limiting assignments to about three hours or explicitly scoping an MVP, shipping a README with title intro usage architecture future, adding a few tests for critical logic, scanning deps with Snyk and proofreading with Grammarly, and giving feedback.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:05Speaker intro
- 2:29Take-home assignments purpose
- 3:10Take-home pros and cons
- 5:18Candidate tips 1
- 8:27Candidate tips 2
- 14:19Candidate tips 3
- 18:55Company tips 1
- 21:19Company tips 2
- 24:36Company tips 3
- 28:29Conclusion
- 37:01Q&A
