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Discussion on: Should I accept coding challenges for a potential job?

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Jason Clark

Coding challenges are bs. They do not work. The dev i replaced aced the coding test. His code was so bad after 9 months hee was fired and i had to rebuild correctly due to a "simple" feature add. I am a dev with 40k hours in the industry and id rather code something useful for the world than waste my time playing the developer test lottery. Tests are good for kiddos but im not in college anymore. Imho if an employer cannot invest the time to review my massive github portfolio, job portfolio or even look at the visual code graph of time ive spent coding on my coderrank, theyre not for me theyll just use me as an object and throw me away when the project is completed!!