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jacobobryant on Sept 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers

From the article: "In retrospect, I think our test was a bit longer and more difficult than ideal. If I were to do this over again, I would design the test to take about 4 hours."

Seems reasonable to me.

jakebasile on Sept 26, 2019 [–]

But the test time is actually unbounded, although of course they're hovering over you with a stopwatch.

Which means the candidate will be under incredible stress still, no matter what the supposed target time is.

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