Just venting my spleen cos I'm a bit annoyed.
Did an online test for a gig 2 nights ago, only 10 questions, 2 of which where about regular expressions.
Was told by the client that the test was purely about how you cope under pressure and so speed was of the utmost importance, and not to look up the answers as this will show by the time it takes you.
Flipping router dies on me half way through as I click next after the first reg exp question, have to reboot router and click refresh only to be presented with the same question, so put in the same answer hit next.
At that point I realise from the question numbers that it wasn't actually the same question so I must have read one of them wrong, no way I was hitting back and risking loosing more time (speed is utmost remember) so I carry on, at the end (took around 8 mins including router reboot) I get a message thanking me for doing the test and they will be in touch.
Today I get a call saying I got 8/10 correct, not bad I though as I know for a fact I screwed up at least one of the reg exp questions, however my time was logged at over 6 hours!
I explained what happened and clientco asked me to do the test again.
I did the test again within 20 minutes (I was out with the dog when they called) and realised I had misread BOTH reg exp questions -Doh! finished in a couple of minutes and took a screenshot of the thank you page, emailed all this to client to prove I had finished in good time.
Get's call back, sorry not going to take it any further because I got 100% so I must have read up on regualr expressions before redoing the test as I clearly didn't know how to do them from the first test (admitidly they were easy, but I had totally misread them).
So, from their point of view they think that I knew nothing about regular expressions and in 20 minutes ran home from the beach and researched the subject enough to be able to answer their questions without hesitating, and this is a bad thing???
Grrrrrrrrrr
Did an online test for a gig 2 nights ago, only 10 questions, 2 of which where about regular expressions.
Was told by the client that the test was purely about how you cope under pressure and so speed was of the utmost importance, and not to look up the answers as this will show by the time it takes you.
Flipping router dies on me half way through as I click next after the first reg exp question, have to reboot router and click refresh only to be presented with the same question, so put in the same answer hit next.
At that point I realise from the question numbers that it wasn't actually the same question so I must have read one of them wrong, no way I was hitting back and risking loosing more time (speed is utmost remember) so I carry on, at the end (took around 8 mins including router reboot) I get a message thanking me for doing the test and they will be in touch.
Today I get a call saying I got 8/10 correct, not bad I though as I know for a fact I screwed up at least one of the reg exp questions, however my time was logged at over 6 hours!
I explained what happened and clientco asked me to do the test again.
I did the test again within 20 minutes (I was out with the dog when they called) and realised I had misread BOTH reg exp questions -Doh! finished in a couple of minutes and took a screenshot of the thank you page, emailed all this to client to prove I had finished in good time.
Get's call back, sorry not going to take it any further because I got 100% so I must have read up on regualr expressions before redoing the test as I clearly didn't know how to do them from the first test (admitidly they were easy, but I had totally misread them).
So, from their point of view they think that I knew nothing about regular expressions and in 20 minutes ran home from the beach and researched the subject enough to be able to answer their questions without hesitating, and this is a bad thing???
Grrrrrrrrrr
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