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Yeah that sucks. I do think it is important that the potential employer make it easy to complete the sample work within a reasonable amount of time. As in your case, they should have taken care of the system admin and given you a Vagrant image or AWS instance or something similar since I am assuming they weren't testing you on your system admin abilities.


I can feel, viscerally, the conversation going on when the hiring manager is trying to get resources for that.

HM: I need a budget to spin up AWS instances.

PHB: Ugh, are we recruiting poor people? We need self-starters!


Yes I can see that happening too. :)




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