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Well online demo may be just a rain-check to show that you know the technology you are using, you know what you are doing and in short to show you are on right track. Sometimes describing how you would go about doing stuff will also go a long way too
Right. So this experiment is to determine if online demos matter at all. Perhaps all Paul, Jessica, RTM and Trevor care about is a good idea (or not so good idea) with a solid team. In fact, they probably only care about a solid team. Reddit's idea was entirely changed after they applied. I'll be interested to see if by tomorrow anyone's actually confirmed that they've looked. Then next cycle we can refocus our effor…
I suspect many of those questions reveal aspects of the applicants that aren't necessarily obvious. The questions on the app were all stimulating and I wouldn't recommend trying to second-guess any of it.