I like the assignments where a starting project is provided, and you are given a few enhancements and bug fix tasks within the project. That is probably what your first few months will be like at the job anyway. You can match the coding standard of the existing project rather than agonizing about naming standards or other subjective decisions. I have an issue with the more open ended tasks where you create a project from scratch. I saw the directive "make the interface as polished as possible". That is how a 3 hour project turns into a week of work.
I agree! It's great when companies take the time to do this. Though it's tough when it's been a few months/years and the code hasn't been maintained. You'll see some repos in the library that are up to 8 years old.
One of the ideas my team brainstormed is to create and maintain a library like this that engineering teams can rely on.
