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Coding assignments for a new role
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Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishing -
Originally posted by TheDude View Post
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)Comment
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I'm not sure I'd prefer to be asked some sort of practical programming question in-interview or offline. The former typically involves demonstrating that I cannot write on a white-board or remember the standard library API names - neither of which are remotely important. While the latter can easily be a tedious long test I am not really prepared to do.
So much of real development is not "write an algorithm to do X" but "write code which gets data from this front-end framework, validates it, sends it to that web-service using another framework, waits for a reply then parses the response and persists to the database layer using another framework".Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
So much of real development is not "write an algorithm to do X" but "write code which gets data from this front-end framework, validates it, sends it to that web-service using another framework, waits for a reply then parses the response and persists to the database layer using another framework".Comment
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Originally posted by TheDude View Post
Not in my game - Topcoder/Leetcode style questions are pretty common though and I really enjoy doing that because I have practiced a lot over the years.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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I think a lot of these assignments are to see who loves coding in their spare time. They are looking for people that don't blink when deadlines are imposed that force evening and weekend coding.
I'm glad I'm finished from the industry now.First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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Originally posted by _V_ View PostI think a lot of these assignments are to see who loves coding in their spare time. They are looking for people that don't blink when deadlines are imposed that force evening and weekend coding.
I'm glad I'm finished from the industry now.
Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
Who wouldn't prefer to hire people who enjoy what they do and care about it?First Law of Contracting: Only the strong surviveComment
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Originally posted by _V_ View Post
Well of course. Hire those that would do it for free and think nothing of spending 60 hours a week on the tasks. That's the mindset in IT, fill yer boots!Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostAnd that's exactly what I did to get skilled and in a position to overtake all my peers income-wise. Good hard graft.
There is many a computer science graduate who can't break into the industry because they have done zero programming outside of their degree course.Comment
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