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liegroupon Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?

I wrote a simple shared budget tracking tool using Lambda, SES and SNS. https://blog.yangmillstheory.com/posts/serverless-budget-tra...

liegroupon Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: Nand to Tetris Part II

Just finished this course on Coursera; highly recommended.

liegroupon Interview question for senior front-end engineer

Now that I think back, at least half the time was spent in setting up test cases and clarifying the problem statement.

liegroupon Interview question for senior front-end engineer

It took me 30 minutes because I'm out of interviewing practice mode, and I was pair-programming with a backend/infrastructure dev :). When I tried it alone, I did it in about 7 minutes.

Would you agree that 15 minutes is enough to get a sense of the candidate's approach, and be able to tell whether or not they'd be able to solve it given 45 minutes?