"Being a programmer" on the job actually doing useful work for someone and knocking out contrived coding puzzles are two _very_ different things. Just keep int

"Being a programmer" on the job actually doing useful work for someone and knocking out contrived coding puzzles are two _very_ different things. Just keep interviewing and realize that although some places will use these tests as secret handshakes to cull candidates, many more will try to evaluate YOU in a bigger picture: other aspects of your background and attributes, how they think you'll get along with the others, your grit, communication ability, and like-ability. There is so much more to work than technical prowess (especially as measured by unrealistic quizzes). If your passion is software development, you are doing yourself a disservice to give up so early just because you are not performing the way you think you should be performing on puzzles.