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I spent around 40 hours of time and during my second interview, the manager didn't like my answer …

… I spent around 40 hours of time and during my second interview, the manager didn't like my answer about how I would design the UI so he quickly wished me luck and ended the call. The first interview went really well. For a couple of months, I kept asking the recruiter if anyone successfully solved the coding challenge and he said nobody did except me. Out of respect, I posted the challenge and the solution on my github after waiting one year. Part 2 is the challenging part; it's mostly a problem solving thing and less of a coding problem: https://github.com/jonnycoder1/merck_coding_challenge

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100%. I just went through an interview process where I absolutely killed the assignment (had the best one they'd seen), had positive signal/feedback from multiple engineers, CEO liked me a lot etc, only to get sunk by a CTO who thought it would be cool to give me a surprise live test because of "vibe coding paranoia". 11 weeks in the process, didn't get the role. Beyond fucking stupid. This was the demo/take-home (for https://monumental.co ): https://github.com/rublev/monumental

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That sucks so hard man, very disrespectful. We should team up and start out own company. I tried checking out your repo but this stuff is several stops past my station lol.

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Part 2 is the challenging part; it's mostly a problem solving thing and less of a coding problem That doesn't look too challenging for anyone who has experience in low-level programming, embedded systems, and reverse engineering. In fact for me it'd be far easier than part 1, as I've done plenty of work similar to the latter, but not the former.

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Enjoy the ultimate classic tour de force from world treasure Chung-chieh (Ken) Shan’s wikiblog "Proper Treatment" discussion / punchline http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber... Start of main content: http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber...

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