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Small-project onsite rehearsal

Tell someone how to act on this idea. "The current posting says the in-office onsite includes work on a small project."

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The current posting says the in-office onsite includes work on a small project. It does not publish the duration, repository, prompt, payment, tool rules or deliverable. Build a flexible rehearsal around what is known, then replace your practice settings with the instructions recruiting provides.

For practice, choose a small product change in an unfamiliar open-source editor or AI-development project and set your own three-to-four-hour clock. This is a useful stress test, not a claim that the real onsite uses unfamiliar code, an ambiguous brief or that duration.

Build and explanation reinforce each other

The posting says you will work on a project and discuss ideas, but does not promise a formal presentation. Rehearse both the artifact and a short explanation so you can adapt if interviewers ask for a demo, tradeoffs or next steps. Follow the current tool and question rules throughout.

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Full explanation

A 3–4 hour practice protocol

A 3–4 hour practice protocolAdapt after recruiting confirms the format

THE BUILD PROTOCOL, END TO END

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diagram: flow

Verify is a hard gate - never present a slice you haven't run on a real input.

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