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Re:Ask HN: How to make a career working remotely? by StavrosK on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:47AM (#12845194)
My experience with Toptal wasn't great, I tried to join and got a programming puzzle for the first interview (actually an online coding test), which was barely tangential to actual programming experience. They also want you to complete an unpaid project, which I heard takes around 30 hours.
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Re:Ask HN: How to make a career working remotely? by EduardoBautista on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:41PM (#12848268)
From my experience, they weren't puzzles. They were pretty straightforward to do if you are familiar with arrays and hashes/dictionaries and when to use which.
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Re:Ask HN: How to make a career working remotely? by StavrosK on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:44PM (#12851157)
Mine were different, the solution to one was literally "return len(x) - x.count(a)". If you didn't realize that, you spent an hour battling off-by-one errors.
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