alt Hacker Newsmeta, google, amazon don't have take home
Basically all big companies doing industrial scale hiring ( and firing) that don't have time or patience for take homes.
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zdragnar • last Sunday at 6:07 AM
GitHub (pre-microsoft at least) and Crowdstrike both did. Amazon didn't have a take home so much as a "prove you can write code with this simple problem" though that was also pre-AI days as well.
filesfiles • 08/09/2025
> Basically all big companies doing industrial scala hiring ( and firing)
Is Scala the right choice for hiring and firing, though? If they need to fire quickly, why not straight machine code?
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In Australia, AWS dev position in 2021 had a take home. Microsoft contract position before that didn’t but they were desperate to fill seats on a poorly executed gov contract.