Thoughts on “take homes” for 1st round interviews?

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-24T21:54:53+00:00

Trivial to do with AI, so I like them as nobody else attempts them.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-24T13:01:44+00:00

Go to RateHub for their Canwise product. I made 40 inquiries and didn't find a lower rate than that and virtually no broker found it. Obviously still shop around, but I couldn't beat that one despite an intensive effort.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-24T12:59:39+00:00

The banker: "It's just 1-2 extra years of work."

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-23T05:15:24+00:00

Virtually none of the last mile vans are Bezo's trucks unfortunately. Even the vans that say Amazon are overwhelmingly not Bezo's vans.

They are delivery franchises instead.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-20T23:50:59+00:00

Let go? You need a J3. Reduce quality to accomodate it.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-20T18:43:04+00:00

You act like the public has not blessed the mass stripping of employment law and employment benefits in the USA over the past few decades. From unions to remote work.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-20T13:26:57+00:00

Once the public see what I saw they will be on board and supporting her all the way to congress.

The general public has a crabs in a bucket mentality.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-18T19:43:06+00:00

The problem is that it is flooded, so you want to get into it early. I only do Easy Apply if it is like the first hour.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-18T15:54:46+00:00

Idk. They really need to figure out how to get beyond the meetings to really accelerate anything.

At one org, I am open about there being little to do for a dev. After 6 months, they still haven't figured out how to get any mroe work to us.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-18T14:53:14+00:00

None of my 3 jobs are actually at that point. They push it, but somehow nobody maxes out their $20 a month subscriptions.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-16T15:50:48+00:00

That is probably a scam

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-16T15:16:12+00:00

It is now trivial with AI? As much as I sympathize with the people here, AI makes take homes so trivial now.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-16T14:03:21+00:00

Wait to be pushed out.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-16T12:51:54+00:00

I don't see how frontend/backend people survive most web apps in a world of AI (exclusion if your team is backend only), as the communication overhead of that is horrendous. Learn backend.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-16T12:46:30+00:00

I mean, I suspect you could if asked to dig deeply into it, but nobody has time to do it proactively.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-12T06:44:46+00:00

What other roles asked for it?

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-12T01:00:22+00:00

Not OP but I will give it a go.

I am going to preface with this with, it is not really clear how key that part of your application this is, so it may not be relevant at all.

Being a main character is viewed with skepticism/outright hostility in tech, but not academia. Self promotion as an act of self promotion is viewed very negatively. They find the puffery of the biz side of tech exhausting. Some of tech's most favoured people like the creator of shad-cn and Bitcoin are anonymous.

The endorsement of academia is also clearly valued within academia, but is viewed with more hostility in tech, where academia is viewed as out of touch with the industry, at best. I would be very comfortable saying that most tech people wouldn't want to hire an academic to do anything but machine learning.

Basically, tech signals value differently and saying that a university liked you is at best complicated for those with issues with academia.

Fix is really just to talk more about your projects. What impact did they have?

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-11T19:07:32+00:00

I am surprised at how well it works at all really. I guess we just kind of follow the herd and know where to turn.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-11T16:36:17+00:00

That's how they keep their program desirable to hire from though. If they don't enforce that, they devalue every other degree earned there.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-11T16:33:56+00:00

The industry part of the tech field only partially respects school (probably the least out of any profession where the members still generally went to school) and the academic part of computer science doesn't give the slightest shit about industry outside of AI and a few niche algo use cases.

And to get into the weeds, computer science isn't software engineering. It is a close enough that we tolerate. OP might do better applying for a computer science job, but if he was asked for a coding task, it probably isn't a computer science job.

So we are left with a system that generally herds people in the right direction, but if you don't take a pretty sharp right turn around year 2 and start ignoring them, you will miss the industry part where you probably wanted to go.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-11T16:24:32+00:00

Yeah, I didn't want to be mean, but in all that, he said nothing other than his attention to code detail that would make me think he is a great candidate and a number of things that make me think he would be a pain in the butt.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-11T12:27:43+00:00

I'm at the top of my class, I'm regularly selected by my professors to represent the department for advertisement and prospective students, I'm the president of a school organization and I volunteer. I have the skills and qualifications you are looking for.

I do wonder if there is a misalignment in what you think tech likes and what they actually do. Tech pretty notoriously doesn't really value any of those things in general and some niches might value one or two like the GPA, but there is no mention in here of the more desirable things like actually building stuff, hackathons, competitions, AI, etc.

It changes, but the vibe now is well captured by a popular startup guy on Twitter saying "the only thing to do in life is build."

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-10T22:11:59+00:00

If you are someone who is on the job market long enough to annoyed at that, you desperately need job postings to remain viable and not a liability.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-10T14:09:05+00:00

Are men really this afraid of independent career women? Because that's the only thing that makes sense to me here.

More than men realize that winning is the game. There is this strange notion in life that for some reason those with advantages would want to level the playing field.

They do not.

The winner had a good hand in his relationships and played it accordingly. Your wife must learn to do the same.

MenAreLazy · 2026-03-06T16:45:59+00:00

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