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JohnFen 6 days ago

I never had a good one, although that's probably because I started refusing to do them years ago.

The worst one was about 15 years ago. The task was to design and implement an ML system to solve a complex network optimization problem. It was so complex that I was given three months to do it. My estimation was that I could do it in three months if I worked on it full time, which was clearly a ridiculous ask.

didgetmaster 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I had a similar experience many years ago. I spent several hours writing some pseudocode to show how I would solve a particular problem.

The interviewer rejected it and said he wanted working and tested code, which I estimated would take nearly 100 hours to do.

I told him I wasn't interested in working for free, but I would gladly do it for my normal consulting fee that I was charging at the time.

Didn't hear back from him. Dodged a bullet there.

solardev 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> The task was to design and implement an ML system to solve a complex network optimization problem. It was so complex that I was given three months to do it.

Lol! That's quite ridiculous.

hehehheh 6 days ago | parent [-]

Sounds like spec work

JohnFen 5 days ago | parent [-]

That's what I thought. I refused to do it and dropped out of the application process because it really sounded like they were trying to get free labor.