How FDE Take-Homes Are Scored
Learn how reviewers assess FDE take-home submissions based on the evidence they can verify, including reproducible runs, validated outputs, documented scope decisions, and known limitations. Support each claim with verifiable evidence and address gaps such as unverified results and incomplete setup instructions. Build submissions that reviewers can reproduce, verify, and assess against documented limitations.
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Earlier modules covered the FDE workflow, from customer discovery to production. Many FDE interviews assess part of this workflow through a take-home assignment. This lesson explains what reviewers can verify in a submission and how to keep claims aligned with supporting evidence.Reviewers score what they can check, not what you claim.
A take-home assignment evaluates a defined part of the FDE workflow within a limited scope. Code, test results, documentation, and a walkthrough demonstrate how you approach a customer problem.
A strong submission provides a reproducible workflow and supports its claims with verifiable evidence. An interview prototype can demonstrate engineering practices without proving that the system is production-ready.
What the report shows
Consider this fictional assignment:
Give a support lead a read-only report of unresolved tickets older than 48 hours so they can decide what to follow up. For this supplied fixture, age_hours is already calculated. Closed tickets do not belong in the report.A fixture is a fixed set of inputs used to demonstrate or check behavior. This one contains four records: