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> Anecdote: My company has recently passed on a few early career candidates who pretty clearly hadn't been mentored. Either that or the candidates you passed o
by jschwartzi 7y ago
> Anecdote: My company has recently passed on a few early career candidates who pretty clearly hadn't been mentored.
Either that or the candidates you passed on simply didn't want to spend several hours making enterprise-grade software for a take-home test that they're not getting paid for.
- noobiemcfoob 7y agoThis. This. This. Everyone thinks they can interpret their tests perfectly. Ultimately, the candidates are likely better off. The coded message here is not that they didn't use obvious design patterns but that they didn't code in the way the employer wanted. Which...I suppose is a perfectly fine reason to pass on a candidate.
- jar_cup_bowl 7y agoI'm just sharing my experience as it relates to the article, no need to be inflammatory. Take home assignments are a pretty common assessment tool and many candidates prefer it to getting grilled on DS/Algos on a whiteboard.
- sgt101 7y agoAlso, I would love to see the quantitative evidence that the value of the design patterns in maintenence are. My guess is that in fact this is a random assertion made by a single engineer.