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I've had the same experience. Submitted a working code test and crickets. I left it up on my GitHub named "{company name} coding test" and a couple of months la
by willcipriano 4y ago
I've had the same experience. Submitted a working code test and crickets. I left it up on my GitHub named "{company name} coding test" and a couple of months later they asked me to take it down beacuse other people were plagiarizing it. Like them, I was concerned with the legal ramifications of providing any sort of contact, so I took no action and didn't respond.
- smcl 4y agoThat's an excellent response
- water8 4y agoYeah, they were clearly plagiarizing. You should’ve told them to go pound sand
- WhompingWindows 4y agoPlagiarizing aka Parent Comment just made an Open Source "library". What's wrong with using those??
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- collyw 4y agoIf a solution to a problem is available on github it would make sense to use it if it solves the problem.
- adastra22 4y agoI would have sent them a contract to buy the code for $15k.
- highwaylights 4y agoThis is the correct answer, assuming you didn’t sign anything that gave them the rights to what you produced.
- johnebgd 4y agoThis is the way.
- roenxi 4y agoA baffling response at many levels. Both by the company (isn't this a great signal not to hire someone for their coding ability? Maybe everyone should put up a decoy solution) and the plagiarists (do they think the company hasn't seen the task before?).
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- sidewndr46 4y agoIf you ask a candidate to complete such a thing and then they turn in obviously copied work, isn't the author who published it doing the hiring manager a favor?
- morelisp 4y agoWe put a shibboleth in our test for this reason, there's ~20 solutions up on GitHub and 80% of them are wrong. Feel free to copy them, it makes it so much easier for me to grade.
- Balgair 4y agoHow many interviews are you doing?
- morelisp 4y agoAbout two a week lately, maybe 50% get offered the test after a short first-contact interview. We are sub-10 person team so this is a relatively large burden for us.
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- Majestic121 4y agoWhat does shibboleth mean to you ? It does not seem to match the original meaning of 'a signal to differentiate people from the in-group'
- morelisp 4y agoIt differentiates our test from other GitHub projects.
- masklinn 4y agoIt kinda works still: you tweak the exercise a bit to differentiate between the “in-house” version of the test and the rest. Depending on the tweak it can also make the most basic of applicants fail to find matches entirely e.g. ask for a “YcomBinator” instead of a “FizzBuzz”.
- test1235 4y agoWeird - I had this exact scenario with a contract position working with Sony. I was even rushed to complete the take-home task, after which I was ghosted.