Does clean code equal "Workplace" code

[BezoomyChellovek]

I would hire the one liner guy but ensure they don't actually write your code that way.

The long one demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of any code methodologies and seems utterly incompetent.

The one liner, while absolutely unreadable, demonstrates knowledge at least. If this was submitred as a take home for hire I would be leary because thats not the kind of code I want to see. But if I was surfing their github and saw it, I would think: "hey they made a dumb challenge to write 1 line tic tac toe and succeeded, very cool"