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		taude on Jan 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interviewing a front-end developer I've never once had a company ask for a code sample. What's the point in that? Lazy lame candidates will just go copy something off the internet.

frankzinger on Jan 30, 2014 [–]

That is why people say 'get them to walk through their code'. Also, it's not that easy to fake a project's complete git or other VCS history.

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