Coding assignments for a new role

[rocktronAMP]

The worst assignment I saw was an app to crawl multiple remote stores of completely unstructured documents and process into structured data.

Note we are talking TB of data here and the solution had to be deployed on AWS (note they offered £200 towards costs)

Digital web agencies call this or used to call this "Speculative design" - and it's a no-no. They refuse. They instead write a proper Tender for Contract.

[d000hg]

This. Only happened a couple of times but I have never got a contract following a test. Same with multiple interviews.

Without fail the best contracts I have had have been on the back of quick chats.

Of course one way to read this is that the more thoroughly you were checked, the less likely you were to get the gig for some reason

[jmo21]

Why - did you add a calories field to the Product class?

[Gibbon]

Never had to take a test. Been close a few times, but I'd already been recommended to the client and they all declined that part of the interview. Usually though now days I get my own by contacting hiring managers.

[eek]

The worst assignment I saw was an app to crawl multiple remote stores of completely unstructured documents and process into structured data.

Note we are talking TB of data here and the solution had to be deployed on AWS (note they offered £200 towards costs)

Isn't that the entire business model / project within that one coding assignment.

[TheDude]

My current client has a very hefty take home assignment. Thankfully I don't have to do them ?

The worst assignment I saw was an app to crawl multiple remote stores of completely unstructured documents and process into structured data.

Note we are talking TB of data here and the solution had to be deployed on AWS (note they offered £200 towards costs)

[TheDude]

I've done a few.

Here is one Greggs (yes, the luke warm sausage roll folk) use for interviews, which I enjoyed doing (I didn't get the gig in the end)
https://github.com/GreggsLloyd/Greggs.Products

Why - did you add a calories field to the Product class?

[jmo21]

I've done a few.

One was part of the on-site interview, VM with a small codebase, fix a bug where the website crashes, implement a small feature, add dependency injection - I thought this worked really well, and I got the gig.

Here is one Greggs (yes, the luke warm sausage roll folk) use for interviews, which I enjoyed doing (I didn't get the gig in the end)
https://github.com/GreggsLloyd/Greggs.Products

[TheDude]

I spent an hour on a test last week only to discover the guy reviewing the code is not an expert in this particular programming language.

The code I produced is idiomatic yet would be hard to understand by anyone lacking an understanding of functional programming concepts.

I have not heard back and suspect the gatekeepers for the role don't want another piranha in the tank that would make them look incompetent.

[hairymouse]

It was E for me, spent a weekend doing some task that was supposed to take an hour. Nobody could have done it better, never heard back from them. Learned my lesson.