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That coding challenge sounds like a far cry from developing even a prototype application. What was the skill level of the people doing it? Had they had experien
by hesdeadjim 10y ago
That coding challenge sounds like a far cry from developing even a prototype application. What was the skill level of the people doing it? Had they had experience in both dynamic and static types languages? What were the languages, Java or something modern?
Edit: I don't mean this to be snarky, I just feel that it is not a very good experiment to draw conclusions from.
- phamilton 10y agoWe prepped them ahead of time telling them that they would need to produce an HTTP API that accepted requests and returned a response compiled from multiple HTTP endpoints. It's basically an orchestration layer, and I've done similar things in production many times. ("If we exposed X to the clients, we could allow action Y. Would action Y contribute to our goal of Z?" Instead of building a highly performant correct solution, we would do an on the fly derivation of the data needed, launch it for 5% and see the experiment results.) It was for all candidates, meant to test ability to understand a problem and prototype a solution quickly. Edit: most candidates did Java/Scala/Python/Ruby.