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> I can say "you shouldn't spend more than two hours on this" until I'm blue in the face, but candidates think they need to polish far beyond what is reasonable

I'm going totally nuts about this particular problem. I have written in as clear terms as possible that I really don't want the candidate to spend more than 2 hours, but I don't feel I am going to convince anybody - especially as this is a (mini)game programming test, and with games you can always add one or ten more things.



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