A candidate shared a take-home assignment labelled "~4 hours" by the hiring company. The public repo history revealed 31 hours of commit activity — spanning late nights and weekends. The candidate was rejected after the take-home defence round.
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Take-home asked for "production-ready microservice, ~4 hours." Repo shows 31 hours of commits.
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Senior platform engineer · UK fintech, Series C · company on file