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Yes, I did one recently, got told it should take 2 or 3 hours, so I spent a morning on it. Got failed for a number of the most trivial reasons - it didn't meet
by collyw 6y ago
Yes, I did one recently, got told it should take 2 or 3 hours, so I spent a morning on it.
Got failed for a number of the most trivial reasons - it didn't meet PEP 8 (it was two white space errors, as I didn't have pep installed on my home laptop, so I missed them).
A load of stuff about not mocking tests (setting up that would have doubled the scope of the project). The spec and said if you don't have time, then describe what you would have added in terms of tests - which I did). I did provide the most difficult to implement integration test to prove the system worked.
There was a complaint providing an HTML webpage rather than a JSON endpoint (the spec described it as a "page" and said not to bother with styling - so implied that it was HTML). Plus a couple of other equally ridiculous complains.
Don't waste your time with takehome tests without speaking to someone in engineering first. Sennder is the company if anyone else wants to avoid, I think we should be naming and shaming such companies.
- bananaface 6y agoGood God. That sounds awful.