Re:Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from b...
by remoteorbust on Saturday August 04, 2018 @01:26PM
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I agree. I have, at different companies, for the last 6 years, asked people to do a small take home problem that should take a couple hours. BTW I'm aware that some people feel like this is a bad idea but I strongly disagree.
I'd love to be really strict on my reviews of the code but I don't have that luxury because the majority of samples fail one of the following tests:
1. Don't compile
2. Crash under trivial input
3. Have trivially detectable race conditions
I spend alot of time recruiting for remote golang developmers who will be working at a fairly massive scale (not Google but a fortune 50/top 50 Alexa rank). I can't say that I've ever had 20 candidates in front of me who could write race free code with the bare minimum of tests.
I'd love to be really strict on my reviews of the code but I don't have that luxury because the majority of samples fail one of the following tests:
1. Don't compile 2. Crash under trivial input 3. Have trivially detectable race conditions
I spend alot of time recruiting for remote golang developmers who will be working at a fairly massive scale (not Google but a fortune 50/top 50 Alexa rank). I can't say that I've ever had 20 candidates in front of me who could write race free code with the bare minimum of tests.