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I really struggle with this, because on one hand I don't want to be the arrogant special snowflake kind of person, but on the other hand I also have a 15 year job history and 100k lines of code on GitHub, including some fairly widely used stuff. If you want to establish basic competency it's not hard.

So basically my solution is to just ghost people when they ignore the subtle "maybe look at my GitHub that you asked for to establish basic competency?" and start asking for coding tests because I neither want to do the test nor come off as a twat, and this seems like the "least bad" option. The truth of the matter is I have the time and can do it, I just don't feel like doing it; nothing more.

And I also consider it as a bit of an indication whether I want to work for them in the first place. "Rules must be followed, at all times" with zero flexibility or common sense is not really something I deal well with.



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