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Before freelancing I worked for a few companies.

I've always been hired due to interviews and referrals without coding challenges. Not because I'm a genius, just because they didn't do any. It was extensive chats about technology, past projects, stuff on the resume and so on. Questions like Dian Fay's hints to.

I think I was hired at my first full time job because there weren't many (somewhat) skilled Python programmers at the time in the city more than anything else. I started working in a company specialised in financial software that used C++ and Python in 2007...

The only time I was interviewed with a whiteboard coding challenge (after passing extensive phone interviews) I froze half way, my brain went blank and I failed spectacularly. They didn't hire me.