Boss gives you 3-4 hours to make a "new website" what do you do? (old.reddit.com)

Register domain

Upload index.html with text 'hello world'

Job done.

Register domain

Download bootstrap template, edit and upload

Job done

While this assignment is clearly lacking, the answers on the Reddit thread sound a lot like straight from the CIA sabotage handbook [1].

I would take this as an opportunity to shine.

Grab someone from marketing to think about minimal content. Whip out your CMS with a decent template to set up a minimal solution. Work with marketing to fill the template. Voila.

Obviously, this only delivers a quick product description site with limited interaction. But often, all that’s needed is something that people can play with and extend later on.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...

1. Get domain and set up webflow site. Throw in a random template and give access to sales team to add whatever content they want.

2. Spend remaining 3 hours, 45 minutes rehearsing speech about how great it was to work with the sales team and how much you guys can achieve when you put your heads together.

3. Get promoted.

4. Next time a request comes in tell the new guy to throw together a site in 3-4 hours. Don’t worry about the results, they’ll learn.

5. Spend newly free time internally/externally blogging and being a ‘thought leader’

6. Get promoted.

7. Leverage new title to job hop to another company as an ML Engineer so I can learn what ML actually is.

I recall a fellow who could whip up websites using MS FrontPage in no time. However, this approach proved problematic down the road, as site owners struggled to maintain these sites without access to the source code :-}