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Previously on "Potential new contract asked for codility test."
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostTo an experienced person, it is completely stupid.
To a potential employer, less so, given the amount of useless, skill less, lying, chancing charlatans, on the contract market.
If you have ever performed any hiring duties, you would already know this
The best one is the market survival test. My company accounts and references tell the real story.
Taxi drivers.
I would fail all of them. Because of they do not use the proper pull and push steering technique and glance to mirrors too quickly
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostHave you tried a search?
It's the coding tests I object to where they want you to put a full working solution together.
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Originally posted by Gumbo Robot View PostI'd fall at the first hurdle.
I don't even know what this means.Last edited by northernladuk; 18 November 2015, 09:12.
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Originally posted by ItRYmyBEst View PostA recruiter has a new gig at £550 pd for a household name, however they want me to do a 60m codilitiy test even with all my open source examples.
Is this a bad sign?
I don't even know what this means.
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Originally posted by Boo View PostHow would it look to the rest of the company, CEO, HR etc, if the CTO couldn't solve problems without calling people in for fake interviews. Just a silly response IMO.
Boo2
It was for a young company, but, market leader, of course I won't actually name them here.
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Originally posted by Boo View PostThat's preposterously unlikely, you only have to look at the costs of preparing a test, calling people in and interviewing them to see that. How would it look to the rest of the company, CEO, HR etc, if the CTO couldn't solve problems without calling people in for fake interviews. Just a silly response IMO.
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostThey have a problem that they can't fix, they want to get it sorted on the cheap, you will give them the answer and then the contract will get binned
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostIf you ask a contractor to discuss how they would solve your actual problems during an interview people would be going on about "working for free".
I knew of one company department that regularly would create a job, purely to pump people for info.
I knew that was fact, as I eventually got a role there and was told by perms working there.
It got worse as they hired me for 3 months, then decided, after 2 months, on Christmas week, they had "run out of money".
It was the same guy that interviewed for the "no roles" that decided he didn't have budget
The only upside was another department, I had been working with, took me on for another 3 months, within half an hour
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostYawn.. This again..
No, we're not builders, but we're both independent professionals.
Why should one set of "independent professionals" be treated so vastly differently than another set of "independent professionals"?
You wouldn't ask a builder to do a bit of free building to prove his worth, but you would ask him to give up an hour or two to come and discuss what you want doing, and put a quote together.
If you ask a contractor to discuss how they would solve your actual problems during an interview people would be going on about "working for free".
And given how many dodgy builders there are out there, and how many horror stories you come across, I don't think "builders don't do this" is really a great argument in the first place. That's why finding a builder can be so stressful.
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BGCH? I told them I wouldn't do it, even though I'm overqualified. See:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140...ware-engineers
I bailed from a highly paid bureaucratic IB role (they wanted my personal bank statements) in favour of non-bureaucratic less paid role (0 references given). 6 hours of interviews, proof I'm not a criminal, still not enough to trust me? The IB rate was 30% higher by the way.
The more we comply with bulltulip, the more we get.
Give them an inch, they take a mile.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostThe planners don't pay the builder, neither do they care about whether the builder gets paid or not for building the wall.
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Originally posted by MrMarkyMark View PostTo a potential employer, less so, given the amount of useless, skill less, lying, chancing charlatans, on the contract market.
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It is like asking an experienced stayer to run 100 meters on a straight road as a test to select the best and the most efficient ones for a cross-country marathon. Simply stupid.
To a potential employer, less so, given the amount of useless, skill less, lying, chancing charlatans, on the contract market.
If you have ever performed any hiring duties, you would already know this
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