Take-home coding tests enable developers to engage deeply with problems, facilitating research and thoughtful design instead of quick solutions. Concerns about candidates using AI or Google are dismissed; the emphasis is on the ownership and quality of the code produced. Developers are encouraged to leverage available tools, including AI, for efficient problem-solving. The ability to present and explain the solution is more crucial than the method of arriving at it, placing focus on the candidate's understanding and ownership of their work.
In the real world, we want developers to research and ruminate on a problem and toss around solutions in order to arrive at the correct design.
I don't care how a developer arrives at a solution; I just care that they are able to.
The success of a candidate depends not on how they completed the project, but on their ability to present and explain a solution to the problem they were given.
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