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Welcome to the interview process - not every employers does it, but coding evaluations are common. Also: grow up or cut the arrogance, nobody's impressed with
by lscore720 12y ago
Welcome to the interview process - not every employers does it, but coding evaluations are common. Also: grow up or cut the arrogance, nobody's impressed with the attitude but you.
- chad_strategic 12y agoYeah I'm that good. :) Maybe you like wasting time on mindless projects, or tech recruiter? It might benefit to polish up on your economics, specifically supply and demand. Last week alone in Denver: -15 Dev jobs at Pacific Metrics -20 Dev jobs at Health Grades -A Mapquest recruiter I don't know begging for referals. -New Tech (Denver) 15 minutes of job announcements. You might think I have an attitude or arrogant, (oh well) what you can't deny is I now the market.
- lscore720 12y agoI think a coding evaluation that requires an unreasonable amount of time to complete is inappropriate. So if that's the case, your premise is fine. However, burning bridges is a poor strategy and what I can't deny is that you acted with an attitude and were arrogant. Yes, I enjoy wasting time on mindless projects because I retired at 31...and was a tech recruiter. I would be happy to teach you a few things in professionalism, economics, all of the above :)
- chad_strategic 12y agoSorry, I'm a retired Marine, I just cut to the chase, it did wonders for my military / civilian career. Congratulations on your retirement at 31 as tech recruiter, you surely are one in a million! Like I said burning bridges with recruiters that have a shelf life 7 1/2 months, I'm okay with. I am more than comfortable that in your tenure as a recruiter you sucked in your pride to get that fat commission check. As for your offer to teach, I am okay thanks, I don't need to downgrade my knowledge. Cheers.
- fsk 12y agoThere are a handful of recruiters that I refuse to deal with at all. I set my cell phone to block their number and set my gmail to automatically archive their emails. Actually, I have a simple solution now, that works surprisingly well. When someone contacts me, I search my gmail for past interactions. That's saved me from wasting time on several occasions.
- lscore720 12y agoI like that approach, fair and efficient!
- jf22 12y agoYou have to understand there are a lot of jobs, but there are a small amount of jobs you actually want. Quality programming jobs with great co-workers, management, environment, stacks, etc, etc, are rare. People talk and nobody wants to work with the smarmy arrogant guys that seem to be everywhere these days.
- cpncrunch 12y agoCoding evaluations are one thing, but this seems a bit overboard. Did you actually read the spec? If I was going to do this properly, it would probably take me a full day. Perhaps even a couple of days. Is it worth that amount of time? The other question in my mind is whether the company is actually going to use this code for free.
- fsk 12y agoActually, that smelled like a project the company needed done, disguised as an interview test.
- lscore720 12y agoThanks for pointing that out. You're right - a coding evaluation that takes a reasonably skilled programmer more than a few hours to complete is inappropriate. And a company actually using that code, that's just wrong.