Another company asked for a take-home assignment. I’m tired of doing these, what can I do?
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A student from Turing.edu asked my advice on how to handle a situation where they were asked to make yet another take-home assignment. The student was tired of making so many one-off projects that get discarded after the interview, and asked for my advice. Communicate with the company with this example message, and see what happens.
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