Re:Ask HN: How to not fail on coding interview questions?
by digianarchist on Sunday June 17, 2018 @11:55PM
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I had two take homes this week.
The first suggested not to spend longer than two hours and had very precise requirements. I passed this.
Second had four questions - first two were clear and the last two were vague hinting that I should spend 5+ hours implementing a authorization system in rails. They got high level answers for those two. We’ll wait and see.
As everyone here says, you have to practice.
Then, when you're finally fairly good at coding challenge questions, you'll discover that you also have to be good at system design questions which is a different beast altogether. And then you'll learn that instead/addition to the above, company X actually wants you to complete a take-home exercise, and company Y won't consider you because they do Python while you have Java.
It becomes very hard to know what to focus on when you don't have your eyes set on a particular company.