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Technical screening.
On testing engineering ability without wasting anyone's evening: what a coding exercise measures, what it does not, and how to keep the signal without the tax.
Take-home tests are a tax, and the people who can pay it are not the best engineers
A six-hour unpaid task does not select for skill. It selects for free time — which means it quietly filters out parents, carers and anyone already employed.
25 Jun 2026 · 3 min
What a coding test actually measures
Most technical screens measure recall, nerves and free time. A short list of what you can genuinely learn from watching someone write code for forty minutes.
2 Jul 2026 · 2 min
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