Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview
by collyw on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:01AM
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This seems to happen on around 50% of the take home tests that I have been given. Funnily enough I only take the time to do 50% of them.
Hackerrank is even worse. They have strange ways of wording the questions. I have to Google around to work out how to use their input and output (I work with databases all day long, not reading and writing to STDIN/ STDOUT). No step through debugger (which makes a lot of sense for the algorithmic type questions they ask). Cut and paste only works in some browsers.
No one expects you to set up a database and connect to it in that sort of timeframe - yet I would probably manage it better as I do it regularly.
Hackerrank is even worse. They have strange ways of wording the questions. I have to Google around to work out how to use their input and output (I work with databases all day long, not reading and writing to STDIN/ STDOUT). No step through debugger (which makes a lot of sense for the algorithmic type questions they ask). Cut and paste only works in some browsers.
No one expects you to set up a database and connect to it in that sort of timeframe - yet I would probably manage it better as I do it regularly.