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Existing Codebase Debugging Round

AI Coding · Scale AI · Medium

Overview An onsite debugging round on an unfamiliar, existing codebase. You get a multi-file Python service that assigns projects, together with its CSV data and a test suite. Three tests fail. Several small defects have been introduced by recent changes; each needs only one or two lines once you find it. Finding them under time pressure, and saying out loud how you are narrowing things down, is what the round tests. What is in the workspace projassign/ holds about fifteen…

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