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But why conflate “technical skill assessment” and “ambiguity handling” into one big stressful test?

Doing two small tests toy can measure each skill independently

A clear coding test to get technical skill and then some in person requirements gathering exercise or something to measure ambiguity handling.

You’ll get better insight into their abilities with less effort for the interviewee AND the interviewer (if the startup is really that chaotic, do you really think they are doing a careful code review on a zillion different bespoke takehomes?)



> But why conflate “technical skill assessment” and “ambiguity handling” into one big stressful test?

Because the combination is what matters for the hiring decision, and a single test is a lot easier for everyone than two tests.

> You’ll get better insight into their abilities with less effort for the interviewee AND the interviewer

Disagree. It would always end up being approximately twice as much effort for both.




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