Another coding test that takes 2 hours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Don’t tell me it’s one of those take homes 😑

I wonder, what are these tests about? I never had to do any take-home tests. People asked for my github profile but they never asked to do a project for them.

If it's creating some example project it's fine by me. If you have to do puzzles, I skip.

I once refused to make a django blog and offered to make something else. Stupid blogs. Reason is, is that it's the starter tutorial from django. So, if you perfectly follow that, you're basically hired I guess. But it's no way of proofing yourself. Made something else and got hired. It's because having strong opinion I guess.

Once a company said "It's not really impressive.". I said that it at least was complete with no caveats and tested well, automated as manually and that it was exactly what asked and just left it there. Later got phone call that I was hired. So, they just wanted to know how you deal with criticism. Meh.

My favorite hiring method was: take a private project and present it to team.

They were very bored about my python project. I was reading the room. Halfway I said that I prefer to show something else and presented an interpreter written by C. I got a shitload of questions but had answer for everything. Also, got hired as python dev because of that :D I swear, if I continued presenting the python app, I would've not be hired.

Are you networking or applying or both to actually get responses from employers? I get almost nothing but crickets from most places.

@TeachMeCode Why yes, yes it is.

@wojtek322 They're usually about testing your DSA skills, efficient sorting algorithms, bla bla.

@YourMom Just applying, but I try to use A.I. to tell me how my CV can be improved. I don't upload my CV but I just type it all over onto a notepad, which I then input into the A.I.

It seems stage 1 of the job seeking process is polishing your resume as much as possible. Stage 2 would be the targeting. Something I have to work on is tailoring my CV and cover letters to each application.

It's a numbers game I would say. Just try to increase the highest likelihood that your input matches their requirements.

Impressiv

Can those of you on the other side of these assessments speak to how accurate they are?

Cause I've never felt like any of them have been accurate reflections

@TheBeardedOne Here's my feedback: I don't think it accurately reflects of your capabilities as a developer. It only tests how good you are as a lab rat, i.e. how well can you perform under pressure and under an arbitrary time limit.

These kind of tests assume you perfectly know your coding skills. For example, an exercise could be:

Write JavaScript code that passes these tests. You should know how to parse a string into an array of DOM nodes. Then you should know how to discern between parsing and DOM tree reading. Then you should know how to split an array into an array split on words that are pure text and otherwise DOM nodes...

I mean, this shit drives me nervous and I end up fucking up. Would I have studied and practiced this more and better, then yes, I could do it.

Fuck sake this test was so restrictive.

NOT ALLOWED TO SWITCH TAB

NOT ALLOWED TO USE AI

Had to use this weird in-frame headless browser that fucked up the default web page formatting. Great job guys. lol

Perhaps they're not aware that when you are asked to perform something under stress, the logical part of your brain gets turned off and your survival instinct kicks in, which is not what will help with the test!

@CaptainRant beat them with sticks.

@TheBeardedOne they can exist for a lot of reasons, at my previous place they were essentially to screen out "indian" style coders. My new place has a home built one that uses some professor's algo. But in general it's two types I've found that they get used for, semi-cultural fit e.g. "why did you do it this way" and the we should have a test right, this looks good - HR/team manager asked to write one last minute