Re:The Problem with Using HackerRank as a Programmer Screeni...
by user5994461 on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @08:48AM
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That changes everything. It's not a real test at all.
There is a broad range of exercises, a lot of which are for coding competition, way too long and too difficult for a short screening test.
I'd advise you to keep the majority of the exercises dead simple. An exercise to print numbers from 1 to 100 will tell you a lot about the candidate. An 1h dynamic programming exercise will stay unanswered most of the time, that doesn't tell you anything useful.
There is a broad range of exercises, a lot of which are for coding competition, way too long and too difficult for a short screening test.
I'd advise you to keep the majority of the exercises dead simple. An exercise to print numbers from 1 to 100 will tell you a lot about the candidate. An 1h dynamic programming exercise will stay unanswered most of the time, that doesn't tell you anything useful.