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Pretty much hate hackerrank
by isuckatcoding 10y ago
Pretty much hate hackerrank
- applecore 10y agoApparently, you're not the only one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667174
- komali2 10y agoCare to expand?
- pmiller2 10y agoDid you click the link? I despise these platforms as well, because they're all just timed, algorithmic heavy, dynamic programming tests: almost completely irrelevant to real-world programming, and devilishly difficult to get exactly right. And that's if you studied CS in school and got exposure to this stuff there.
- zby 10y agoYou don't need to test how well people do the easy stuff - even if the easy stuff makes up most of their work - you want to test if they are able to do the difficult parts.
- sidlls 10y agoMost of the "difficult parts" have almost nothing to do with the kinds of textbook algorithms and dynamic programming trivia these sites test.
- user5994461 10y agoDo not bother testing the hard stuff. Test for the easy to average stuff. e.g. Ask people to print numbers from 1 to 10. Then kick the 20% of applicants who couldn't do that :D Source: I had to correct a batch of HackerRank tests for one company.
- komali2 10y agoWhat link? I don't see a link in your comment.
- rampage101 10y agoTheir programming knowledge tests are very gimmicky questions where you often spend over half the time figuring out how to format the input because everything is read from standard in.
- zby 10y agoWhat about Codility?
- coredog64 10y agoA former employer used Codility. It was useful for screening out wanna-bes, but to actually use it for ranking senior candidates would be more work than just interviewing.