The first Apple Silicon developer boxes were Mac Minis with A series chips so I wouldn’t have expected any issues.

How many candidates did you send the take home to? You may have done a resume screen first, but it's unlikely your time commitment was equal.

I've worked at places that would send out 100. People would spend their weekends working on it and we often wouldn't even look at the submissions.

I'd like to think I'd still treat you well, even though the interview process was decided by someone else and is completely out of my hands.

I have never downvoted for this, and I hope no one else would do that either. If anyone here does that, please stop.

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