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I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search
2025, May 13 Preface - A "take-home assignment" in the world of Software Developer interviews, is a challenge sent to candidates for them to implement a code solution that solves the challenge. - In this blog post I describe my experience doing a "take-home assignment" for a company that I deemed reputable, and I hope to shine some light on the absurdity of this practice.
In this blog post I describe my experience doing a "take-home assignment" for a company that I deemed reputable, and I hope to shine some light on the absurdity of this practice. It can be found in the following URL: https://hackmd.io/@antonios/SkeEpQeh1l Once you complete it, please reach out and we'll review it and, if successful, invite you for a follow-up interview where we'll discuss your approach and solution in detail. As opposed to the leetcode-style interviews which select for people that memorized some canned leetcode problem well enough to be really efficient at writing the exact code to solve it.
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