Tom Powelleasily 90% of the phone screen replacement / "coding test" i just did for an interview was "can you format the output in the esoteric way we want it formatted, because our vscode knockoff can't figure out python object returns"
like we've really hit the point where companies don't do phone screens anymore, they'd rather hand you something from codesignal and have you spend the majority of the time trying to overwrite __repr__?
"what did you do at work today"
"i wrote classes for all the basic python types so the stupid grader could understand True was "true" and [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] was "["1", "2", "3", "4", "5"]""