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stavros on Aug 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: My secret Hobby: Applying for jobs

I agree, puzzles are interesting and actually show you how the person thinks. What they had me do sounded like getting free work done.

healsdata on Aug 11, 2011 [–]

I can certainly understand that. I've definitely taken care to make sure that all of our examples couldn't be construed as free work. Code katas, like the bowling kata, are good for this.

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