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I am in my 40s and have a relatively safe job and not looking for a change. A friend of mine told me to apply for a certain company and I did. They asked me to
by lozzo 9y ago
I am in my 40s and have a relatively safe job and not looking for a change.
A friend of mine told me to apply for a certain company and I did.
They asked me to free an hour one evening and they put me through hackerrank.
And I failed.
I failed big time.
My take away: Surely we all need to revise if we seriously want to apply for a job
yet it did feel like the screening was asking me to see how good I am at resolving small problems quickly.
Yet, my 25 years of experience told me that we don't need to solve problems quickly
we need to solve them rightly.
and that takes "mulling over"
- codyb 9y agoI'm only 27 and I suck at these tests. This year alone I've run the gamut working frontend, backend (Spring), services (clojure), elasticsearch, and a bit of devops. I tried one last night after a nine hour work day in JavaScript and it kicked my butt. First I was thinking solution X but eventually realized Y was simpler, so then I've wasted a bunch of time because the pressures on coding quickly instead of "mulling" over as you mentioned. It was similar with a Ruby one which I prepared for by running through the Ruby Koans. Lots of time spent looking up syntax, and the vast majority of the time I'm not starting entire repos from scratch, so a lot of simple but not oft repeated things can trick you up to. And, to be quite frank, when I'm at home, and I want to program, I want to work on my over engineered, terribly underdeveloped personal website where I get to do things I don't normally do, putz around with erlang and postgres, do the devops and all that other stuff. Ahh the afflictions of the affluent!