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- AI-Enabled CodeSignal Screen, URL Shortener, Ran Out of TimePersona · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026Rejected
Format: 60 min on CodeSignal. Using CodeSignal's built-in Claude terminal (kept getting throttled, and very slow). The interviewer evaluates how you scope the work, direct the AI, and verify what it produces, not whether you can type it all yourself. Problem: URL shortener (internal go-links) Build an internal go-link tool, e.g. go.internal/ifd → a Notion page. It's scoped to about 100 users, so…