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Comment on Ask HN: How to advocate for prospective employers to show us their codebases?

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It's a reasonable question, but frequently it's quite a complex answer. Given you are likely just one of many applicants I think it may just accelerate most employers turning you down.

If seeing the codebase is an important part of your decision (ie not just knowing what stack/libraries are in use) you may wish to apply for an open source oriented company.

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That this would potentially exclude someone from a hiring process is a concern, yeah. It's definitely a big ask relative to what is the norm.

I'm trying to get a sense of whether or not _any_ companies would be willing to do this.

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