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If someone presented me with a speed-timed programming exercise, I'd walk out the door.
by etchalon 4y ago
If someone presented me with a speed-timed programming exercise, I'd walk out the door.
- theptip 4y agoAny in-person coding exercise with a time-box (say, the standard one-hour slot) is “timed” in some sense. I don’t think we always consider it as such, but if you can’t type fast due to arthritis it could definitely be problematic.
- mechanical_bear 4y agoI walk for any code monkey hoop jump exercises. Timed or not. When you apply to be a carpenter they don’t make you hammer nails, when you apply to be a accountant they don’t have you prepare a spreadsheet for them, etc. I don’t work (even in interviews) for free.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoI don't mind them. I expect any company worth a damn to want to screen out people who can't code. When I work there and interview other candidates, I don't want my time to be wasted, and I don't want to work with people who can't do their job. A quick coding test is something that any places where people should know how to code has to do, doing it through one of those platforms seems perfectly reasonable, and I'm happy to do it. Writing fizzbuzz is not "working for free" any more than any other form of interviews. And is the "when you apply to be a carpenter" sentence really true? I've heard of the interview process for welders being "here's a machine and two pieces of metal, I'll watch".